[edk2-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/3] add GetMaintainer.py helper script
Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
philmd at redhat.com
Sat Jun 15 06:21:10 UTC 2019
On 6/14/19 10:21 PM, Leif Lindholm wrote:
> 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.
Fix suggested on patch #1 (splitting sections).
> - * 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.
Also good enough for a start :)
>
> 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
>
Series:
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daude <philmd at redhat.com>
Tested-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daude <philmd at redhat.com>
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