On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 11:52:47AM -0600, Tom Rini wrote: > On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 08:48:54PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > > On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 10:45:41AM -0600, Tom Rini wrote: > > > On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 07:35:55PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > > > > On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 10:21:45AM -0600, Tom Rini wrote: > > > > > On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 07:12:09PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 08:59:17PM +0530, Kumar, Udit wrote: > > > > > > > On 5/21/2024 7:59 PM, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > > > > > > > > On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 04:26:44PM +0530, Udit Kumar wrote:
... > > > > > > > > Are you Cc'ing random people with this? > > > > > > > > Please don't do it. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I used names names popped up while running get_maintainer.pl > > > > > > > script of > > > > > > > u-boot > > > > > > > > > > > > > > your email id was there for patch-3 of this series > > > > > > > > > > > > Nice, the tool is broken. Please, work with the respective people > > > > > > to fix a tool > > > > > > or to tune it to avoid such mistakes in the future. > > > > > > > > > > > > (Hint: I would first disable Git fallback completely) > > > > > > > > > > So you were cc'd thanks to: > > > > > commit 5e541a05f70296dbad07fc1f4e8678ad207bb476 > > > > > Author: Simon Glass <s...@chromium.org> > > > > > Date: Sun Jul 30 21:01:45 2023 -0600 > > > > > > > > > > env: Use include/env for text-environment includes > > > > > > > > > > The 'environment' word is too long. We mostly use 'env' in > > > > > U-Boot, so use > > > > > that as the name of the include directory too. > > > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <s...@chromium.org> > > > > > Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevche...@linux.intel.com> > > > > > # Intel Edison > > > > > > > > Yeah, and it even explicitly stated what I reviewed from that code... > > > > > > > > > Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng...@gmail.com> > > > > > > > > > > And, I'm sorry because there are other contributors who get upset > > > > > when git > > > > > fallback doesn't find them (because it also ages out after a year). > > > > > In this case there's not even a "tweak the threshold" option since > > > > > there's only a single commit to the file so you're in 100% of them. > > > > > > > > Just an example of false positive by get_maintainer.pl :-( > > > > And a confirmation of what I said — tool is broken. > > > > > > It's an imperfect tool, yes. A quick check shows that if you never want > > > to be cc'd from a git tag, you can add yourself to > > > .get_maintainer.ignore and you will still be matched for things you have > > > an explicit MAINTAINER entry for. > > > > But this will kill me being a maintainer of U-Boot parts (regarding to > > a certain platform) which is not what I want. > > With a quick local test, no, it still reported you for edison stuff > since that's not where the ignore list comes in. I see. Still looking at the rate of false positives so far from U-Boot project I don't see that a big hammer, like the proposed one, should be used. Better to teach people on how to use/tune the tool, it will be helpful in a long-term. -- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko
