This script, and its companion library, is more-or-less Buildroot's
equivalent to the kernel get_maintainer.pl script: it allows to get the
list of developers to whom a set of patches should be sent to.
To do so, it first relies on a text file, named DEVELOPERS, at the root
of the Buildroot source tree (added in a followup commit) to list the
developers and the files they are interested in. The DEVELOPERS file's
format is simple:
N: Firstname Lastname <email>
F: path/to/file
F: path/to/another/file
This allows to associate developers with the files they are looking
after, be they related to a package, a defconfig, a filesystem image, a
package infrastructure, the documentation, or anything else.
When a directory is given, the tool assumes that the developer handles
all files and subdirectories in this directory. For example
"package/qt5/" can be used for the developers looking after all the Qt5
packages.
Conventional shell patterns can be used, so "package/python-*" can be
used for the developers who want to look after all packages matching
"python-*".
A few files are recognized specially:
- .mk files are parsed, and if they contain $(eval
$(<something>-package)), the developer is assumed to be looking after
the corresponding package. This way, autobuilder failures for this
package can be reported directly to this developer.
- arch/Config.in.<arch> files are recognized as "the developer is
looking after the <arch> architecture". In this case, get-developer
parses the arch/Config.in.<arch> to get the list of possible BR2_ARCH
values. This way, autobuilder failures for this package can be
reported directly to this developer.
- pkg/pkg-<infra>.mk are recognized as "the developer is looking after
the <infra> package infrastructure. In this case, any patch that adds
or touches a .mk file that uses this infrastructure will be sent to
this developer.
Examples of usage:
$ ./support/scripts/get-developers 0001-ffmpeg-fix-bfin-build.patch
git send-email--to buildroot@buildroot.org --to "Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>" --to "Bernd Kuhls <bernd.kuhls@t-online.de>"
$ ./support/scripts/get-developers -p imx-lib
Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Gary Bisson <gary.bisson@boundarydevices.com>
$ ./support/scripts/get-developers -a bfin
Waldemar Brodkorb <wbx@openadk.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
