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    scripts/get_maintainer.pl: default to not include unspecified tags · 0fa05599
    Florian Mickler authored
    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: default avatarFlorian Mickler <florian@mickler.org>
    Acked-by: default avatarWolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
    Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
    Cc: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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