[edk2-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/3] add GetMaintainer.py helper script

[Leif Lindholm]

Changes are available directly from:
https://git.linaro.org/people/leif.lindholm/edk2.git/log/?h=upstreaming/git-maintainer-rfc

This series adds new tags to the Maintainers.txt format, making it possible
to describe which filesystem paths are looked after by which people, and
hence automating the extraction of a list over who should be cc:d on a patch
submission.

Remaining shorcomings in RFC:
- Will still be misparsing OvmfPkg and MdeModulePkg due to non-tag lines
  interspersed with the tag lines. These lines will be removed as areas of
  responsibility is formally rewritten as tags.
- * Wildcard support is not fully filesystem compliant except in first or
  last position in the path (it translates as regex .* elsewhere). However,
  actual cases of mismatch are expected to be unlikely, and they will be
  false positives rather than false negatives - so I think this is good
  enough at least for a start.
- Provides no information of why certain people or meiling lists were
  picked - it just bundles all recipients up, deduplicates them, and prints
  them out.

Using the script requires the gitpython module to be installed.

Changelog:
rfc:
- Split patches up
  - one for new Maintainers.txt format (documentation and F: tags).
  - one for adding a new wilcards responsibility area for */Arm, */AArch64
  - one for the GetMaintainer.py script
- Reworked wildcard handling based on Laszlo's explanation
  - Trailing / covers everything under that directory
  - Trailing * does not cover subdirectories
- Added support for X: tag
- Added support for magic '<default>' pathname
- Also prints mailing list addresses for matching L: tags

Leif Lindholm (3):
  Maintainers.txt: update for filesystem area descriptions
  Maintainers.txt: add wildcard path association for Arm/AArch64
  BaseTools: add GetMaintainer.py script

 BaseTools/Scripts/GetMaintainer.py | 181 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 Maintainers.txt                    |  58 ++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 239 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 BaseTools/Scripts/GetMaintainer.py

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