Who maintains this file?

Who maintains this file?

Posted Aug 25, 2007 0:23 UTC (Sat) by socket (guest, #43)
Parent article: Who maintains this file?

So, I used Linus's script to discover who maintains the MAINTAINERS file.

~/src/linux-2.6> whomaintains.sh MAINTAINERS
43 Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
38 Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
8 Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
8 Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
6 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
6 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
6 Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
5 Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>
5 Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

But the script just scans through the 'Signed-off-by' (or other *by) lines in commits where that file is changed and counts them. And since Linus and Andrew wind up with their sign-offs on just about everything, the top few entries might not be as informative as one would hope.

Someone with a little more shell-fu than I have could figure out what happens when this script gets run on every file in the tree and see just how much variation there is between the results.

I think some clever shell work and use of git could still give us what we're looking for, but I agree with the other comment that suggested 'git blame' is more likely to be what we want to use.

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