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

Philippe Mathieu-Daudé philmd at redhat.com
Thu Jul 18 17:01:40 UTC 2019


Hi Leif,

On 7/18/19 6:27 PM, Leif Lindholm wrote:
> Laszlo, Hao - I have prepared a set for pushing as below.
> 
> (Reviewed-by: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm at linaro.org
> <mailto:leif.lindholm at linaro.org>> for all of your patches.)
> *But*, I need a review from  Bob and/or Liming before I push the final one:
> "BaseTools: add GetMaintainer.py script" -
> https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/message/43666
> 
> I have verified reviews/acks by all affected reviewers, except for
> Stefan Berger for Ovmf TCG/TPM2.
> While I would prefer to have that too, this is a file format shift - not
> a change in responsibility areas.

As Marc-André and Stefan have the same responsabilities, Marc-André's
review for their common section should be sufficient, right?

Now if you want to be kind and patient with Stefan, since this is not a
logical change blocking anyone, it might be wise to wait over the weekend.

My 2 cents ;)

Phil.

> Laszlo, do you agree?
> If so, I can push 1-7/8 as is.
> 
> /
>     Leif
> 
> Hao A Wu (1):
>   Maintainers.txt: Fine-grained review ownership for MdeModulePkg
> 
> Laszlo Ersek (4):
>   Maintainers.txt: split out section "ArmVirtPkg: modules used on Xen"
>   Maintainers.txt: split out section "OvmfPkg: Xen-related modules"
>   Maintainers.txt: split out section "OvmfPkg: TCG- and TPM2-related
>     modules"
>   Maintainers.txt: split out section "OvmfPkg: CSM modules"
> 
> Leif Lindholm (3):
>   Maintainers.txt: update for filesystem area descriptions
>   Maintainers.txt: add wildcard path association for Arm/AArch64
>   BaseTools: add GetMaintainer.py script
> 
> 
> On Fri, 12 Jul 2019 at 18:01, Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm at linaro.org
> <mailto:leif.lindholm at linaro.org>> wrote:
> 
>     Changes are available directly from:
>     https://git.linaro.org/people/leif.lindholm/edk2.git/log/?h=upstreaming/git-maintainer-v1
> 
>     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 v1:
>     - 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 file pattern (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.
> 
>     Worthwhile mentioning outside the ChangeLog is the added -l flag, which
>     lets you look up what a given path would return in the way of matches.
>     E.g. "python BaseTools/Scripts/GetMaintainer.py -l Non/Existing/Path"
>     would return:
>     ---
>     Non/Existing/Path
>     "Non/Existing/Path": no maintainers found, looking for default
>       Andrew Fish <afish at apple.com <mailto:afish at apple.com>>
>       Laszlo Ersek <lersek at redhat.com <mailto:lersek at redhat.com>>
>       Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm at linaro.org
>     <mailto:leif.lindholm at linaro.org>>
>       Michael D Kinney <michael.d.kinney at intel.com
>     <mailto:michael.d.kinney at intel.com>>
>       devel at edk2.groups.io <mailto:devel at edk2.groups.io>
>     ---
> 
>     This series would still result in GetMaintainers.py missing some
>     maintainers/reviewers due to descriptions in prose rather than filename
>     patterns. My preferred way of handling this would be to merge 1-2/3 as
>     soon as found acceptable, following up and merging patches to update
>     ArmVirtPkg, MdeModulePkg, and OvmfPkg, and finally once the file is
>     consistent, proceed to merge 3/3.
> 
>     Changelog:
>     v1:
>     - Rebase to current Maintainers.txt.
>     - Fix typos and missed bits in Maintainers.txt.
>     - Get rid of the magic '<default>' filename, let the single-char '*'
>       wildcard resolve this (_using_ the magic '<default>' filename in the
>       script, but treating it as if it was a file in the top-level
>     directory).
>     - Add -l flag to script to look up which maintainers would be
>     returned for
>       a given path (which need not exist).
>     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
> 
>     Cc: Andrew Fish <afish at apple.com <mailto:afish at apple.com>>
>     Cc: Laszlo Ersek <lersek at redhat.com <mailto:lersek at redhat.com>>
>     Cc: Michael D Kinney <michael.d.kinney at intel.com
>     <mailto:michael.d.kinney at intel.com>>
>     Cc: Bob Feng <bob.c.feng at intel.com <mailto:bob.c.feng at intel.com>>
>     Cc: Liming Gao <liming.gao at intel.com <mailto:liming.gao at intel.com>>
>     Cc: Philippe Mathieu-Daude <philmd at redhat.com
>     <mailto:philmd at redhat.com>>
>     Cc: "Wu, Hao A" <hao.a.wu at intel.com <mailto:hao.a.wu at intel.com>>
> 
>     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 | 190 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>      Maintainers.txt                    |  54 ++++++++
>      2 files changed, 244 insertions(+)
>      create mode 100644 BaseTools/Scripts/GetMaintainer.py
> 
>     -- 
>     2.20.1
> 

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