15 Nov
2010
15 Nov
'10
7:34 p.m.
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:14:18AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 19:07 +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
I'd suggest using pattern matching to look up the rules for generating the prefixes (it's pretty much entirely prefixes) in the same way you're handling figuring out who to mail - that'd probably cover it in an automatable fashion.
Publish a tool that works and I'll use it.
It appears your scripts are already hooked into get_maintainers.pl which would seem the obvious place to do this? Sadly I don't do perl, though it looks like you're doing pretty much all the work on that anyway.
The main thing here is to avoid your patches sticking out - as well as the hassle applying them stuff like this is also a red flag on review.