Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer: Prefer MAINTAINER address over S-o-b

From: Joe Perches
Date: Wed Feb 05 2020 - 13:47:50 EST


On Wed, 2020-02-05 at 18:24 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> The get_maintainer.pl script looks at git history to create the CC list,
> but unfortunately sometimes those email addresses are out of date. The
> script also looks at the MAINTAINERS file, of course, but if it already
> found an email address for a maintainer in the git history then the
> deduplicate_email() function will remove the second address.
>
> It should save the MAINTAINERS address first, before loading the commit
> signer addresses.

Yeah, thanks. This has been submitted already.
https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1186249/

> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> We will have to add a special case if the Dan Williamses ever decide
> to work on the same subsystem.
>
> scripts/get_maintainer.pl | 8 ++++----
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
> index 34085d146fa2..e5bdd3143a49 100755
> --- a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
> +++ b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
> @@ -932,14 +932,14 @@ sub get_maintainers {
> }
> }
>
> - foreach my $fix (@fixes) {
> - vcs_add_commit_signers($fix, "blamed_fixes");
> - }
> -
> foreach my $email (@email_to, @list_to) {
> $email->[0] = deduplicate_email($email->[0]);
> }
>
> + foreach my $fix (@fixes) {
> + vcs_add_commit_signers($fix, "blamed_fixes");
> + }
> +
> foreach my $file (@files) {
> if ($email &&
> ($email_git || ($email_git_fallback &&