Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] devtools: add script to get maintainers from patch

[Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>]

-----Original Message-----
> Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 17:34:20 +0100
> From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
> To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> CC: dev@dpdk.org, Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] devtools: add script to get maintainers from
>  patch
> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.8.4
> 
> This is a wrapper to Linux kernel get_maintainer.pl file and only
> supports parsing MAINTAINERS file (no git fallback etc..)
> 
> Requires DPDK_GETMAINTAINER_PATH devel config option set, please check
> devtools/load-devel-config.
> 
> DPDK_GETMAINTAINER_PATH should be full patch to the get_maintainer.pl
> script, like:
> DPDK_GETMAINTAINER_PATH=~/linux/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
> 
> Can be used individually:
> ./devtools/get_maintainer.sh <my.patch>
> 
> Or via git send-email, to add maintainers automatically:
> git send-email --to-cmd ./devtools/get_maintainer.sh \
> --cc dev@dpdk.org HEAD -4
> 
> Currently there is an ugly workaround to be able to use Linux script out
> of the kernel tree, later better method can replace it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>

Cool stuff.

Should we also update the contribution guide for this scheme? so
that it will increase the chance for maintainers to get the direct email and
enable more timely patch review.

Tested-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>