Re: Small student project idea on appropriate integration trees in MAINTAINERS

[Jonathan Corbet]

On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 09:22:24 +0100
Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In this project, we can make use of:
> 
> - gitdm [git://git.lwn.net/gitdm.git]: gitdm includes some scripts to
> parse MAINTAINERS and obtain the integration tree patch of a commit.

Look also at the 'treeplot' tool there, which determines which tree(s)
each patch went through and makes pretty (OK, not hugely pretty) pictures
from the result.

I suspect you'll find that the tree information is mostly correct.
Developers need to know that to be able to base their patches properly; an
incorrect entry would lead to a certain amount of maintainer misery.

Thanks,

jon