Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Coalesce name and email address lines

[Joe Perches]

On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 15:40 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:58:19 -0700
> Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 14:14 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > A collection of cleanup patches to MAINTAINERS
> > 
> > I ran the script I submitted awhile back on MAINTAINERS
> > after these [0/16] patches are applied.
> > 
> > http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/1/275
> > 
> > I think the result is useful for people that rely
> > on copy and paste of email addresses.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> >  MAINTAINERS | 2722 ++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------------------
> >  1 files changed, 908 insertions(+), 1814 deletions(-)
> 
> I don't think I want to have to maintain this patch for more than eight
> minutes.

Neither would I...

> Please send me a copy of that script so I can regenerate the patch when
> it breaks.  I'll include it in the changelog of the patch, because
> there's a decent chance that the patch will get broken during just the
> several-hour lag between me pulling Linus's tree and sending patches at
> him.

Thanks.  I wanted to get feedback though, so I sent the result.

Here's the script inline and as an attachment.

I've removed handling for the removed Cirrus Logic section
and fixed a complaint about recent fuzz with stgit.

diff --git a/integrate_maintainers.sh b/integrate_maintainers.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..b8ac2fa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/integrate_maintainers.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+#! /bin/sh
+#
+# Change MAINTAINERS from
+#	P: name
+#	M: address
+# to:
+#	M: name <address>
+#
+# Integrate P: and M: lines
+#
+perl -i -e 'local $/; while(<>) { s@P:	([^\n]+)\nM:	([^\n]+)\n@M:	\1 <\2>\n@g; print; }' MAINTAINERS
+#
+# Quote names with periods, commas and parentheses
+#
+sed -r -i -e "s/^M:	(.+)([\.,'\(])(.*) </M:	\"\1\2\3\" </g" MAINTAINERS
+#
+# Add a description of email name style
+#
+patch -p1 <<EOF
+diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
+--- a/MAINTAINERS
++++ b/MAINTAINERS
+@@ -73,8 +73,8 @@ Note: For the hard of thinking, this list is meant to remain in alphabetical
+ order. If you could add yourselves to it in alphabetical order that would be
+ so much easier [Ed]
+ 
+-P: Person
+-M: Mail patches to
++P: Person (obsolete)
++M: Mail patches to: FullName <address@domain>
+ L: Mailing list that is relevant to this area
+ W: Web-page with status/info
+ T: SCM tree type and location.  Type is one of: git, hg, quilt, stgit.
+EOF

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