tree 02035689abffffbf9a461df172dfb05049e2bc24
parent 368669da205cd7aac33a2c75f4c81b5ad28efd67
author Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org> 1274736800 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1274800025 -0700

scripts/get_maintainer.pl: default to not include unspecified tags

This changes the default of the option --git-all-signature-types to be
disabled by default.

The effect being, that only certain (currently Signed-Off-By:, Acked-by:
and Reviewed-By:) tags are used to get adresses of potential maintainers.

Motivated is this change by the desire to not 'spam' people unnecessary: A
Tested-By or a Reported-By is not ment as a hint that those people want
to/are able to review patches to the code in question.

In a quest to find resilient statistics for this i came up with this:

I produced a list of all the tag-signers not already covered with a
signed-off/acked/reviewed tag somewhere in the last year of git history.

Those were 650 addresses of "assumed non-developers".

And to check if those "assumed non-developers" are professional
testers/reporters worth cc'ing, i then counted their total appearences
in the git log:

469 were mentioned only once.
123 were mentioned twice.
38 three times
8 four times
5 six times
5 five times
1 eight times
1 fourteen times

I believe this supports my thesis, that the ''non-maintainer-tags'' are
not actively useful for patch-review.  (except probably the guy mentioned
fourteen times...)

But of course one could also find arguments to poke holes in this
statistics, for example does this statistic not include code-locality: A
tested-by on a patch that touches some specific piece of code can be more
worth than a signed-off in another part of the tree.

But...  let's play it safe and let's err on the "safe" side meaning to not
spam those people when in doubt.  We already have the signed-off's and
Maintainers file.  So this should be ok.  And if need be, the maintainers
can always forward the patch.

[i probably could make a diploma thesis out of this changelog :)]

Signed-off-by: Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org>
Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>