Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer/MAINTAINERS: confine K content matching to patches

From: Joe Perches
Date: Wed Oct 04 2023 - 22:41:03 EST


On Wed, 2023-10-04 at 21:21 +0000, Justin Stitt wrote:
> The current behavior of K: is a tad bit noisy. It matches against the
> entire contents of files instead of just against the contents of a
> patch.
>
> This means that a patch with a single character change (fixing a typo or
> whitespace or something) would still to/cc maintainers and lists if the
> affected file matched against the regex pattern given in K:. For
> example, if a file has the word "clang" in it then every single patch
> touching that file will to/cc Nick, Nathan and some lists.
>
> Let's change this behavior to only content match against patches
> (subjects, message, diff) as this is what most people expect the
> behavior already is. Most users of "K:" would prefer patch-only content
> matching. If this is not the case let's add a new matching type as
> proposed in [1].

I'm glad to know you are coming around to my suggestion.

I believe the file-based keyword matching should _not_ be
removed and the option should be added for it like I suggested.

I also think it might be better to mark the "maintained" output
differently as something like "keyword matched" instead.


Something like:
---
scripts/get_maintainer.pl | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++------------------
1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
index ab123b498fd9..befae75e61ab 100755
--- a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
+++ b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ my $subsystem = 0;
my $status = 0;
my $letters = "";
my $keywords = 1;
+my $keywords_in_file = 0;
my $sections = 0;
my $email_file_emails = 0;
my $from_filename = 0;
@@ -272,6 +273,7 @@ if (!GetOptions(
'letters=s' => \$letters,
'pattern-depth=i' => \$pattern_depth,
'k|keywords!' => \$keywords,
+ 'kf|keywords-in-file!' => \$keywords_in_file,
'sections!' => \$sections,
'fe|file-emails!' => \$email_file_emails,
'f|file' => \$from_filename,
@@ -318,6 +320,7 @@ if ($sections || $letters ne "") {
$subsystem = 0;
$web = 0;
$keywords = 0;
+ $keywords_in_file = 0;
$interactive = 0;
} else {
my $selections = $email + $scm + $status + $subsystem + $web;
@@ -548,16 +551,14 @@ foreach my $file (@ARGV) {
$file =~ s/^\Q${cur_path}\E//; #strip any absolute path
$file =~ s/^\Q${lk_path}\E//; #or the path to the lk tree
push(@files, $file);
- if ($file ne "MAINTAINERS" && -f $file && $keywords) {
+ if ($file ne "MAINTAINERS" && -f $file && $keywords && $keywords_in_file) {
open(my $f, '<', $file)
or die "$P: Can't open $file: $!\n";
my $text = do { local($/) ; <$f> };
close($f);
- if ($keywords) {
- foreach my $line (keys %keyword_hash) {
- if ($text =~ m/$keyword_hash{$line}/x) {
- push(@keyword_tvi, $line);
- }
+ foreach my $line (keys %keyword_hash) {
+ if ($text =~ m/$keyword_hash{$line}/x) {
+ push(@keyword_tvi, $line);
}
}
}
@@ -919,7 +920,7 @@ sub get_maintainers {
}

foreach my $line (sort {$hash{$b} <=> $hash{$a}} keys %hash) {
- add_categories($line);
+ add_categories($line, "");
if ($sections) {
my $i;
my $start = find_starting_index($line);
@@ -947,7 +948,7 @@ sub get_maintainers {
if ($keywords) {
@keyword_tvi = sort_and_uniq(@keyword_tvi);
foreach my $line (@keyword_tvi) {
- add_categories($line);
+ add_categories($line, ":Keyword");
}
}

@@ -1076,6 +1077,7 @@ Output type options:
Other options:
--pattern-depth => Number of pattern directory traversals (default: 0 (all))
--keywords => scan patch for keywords (default: $keywords)
+ --keywords-in-file => scan file for keywords (default: $keywords_in_file)
--sections => print all of the subsystem sections with pattern matches
--letters => print all matching 'letter' types from all matching sections
--mailmap => use .mailmap file (default: $email_use_mailmap)
@@ -1086,7 +1088,7 @@ Other options:

Default options:
[--email --tree --nogit --git-fallback --m --r --n --l --multiline
- --pattern-depth=0 --remove-duplicates --rolestats]
+ --pattern-depth=0 --remove-duplicates --rolestats --keywords]

Notes:
Using "-f directory" may give unexpected results:
@@ -1312,7 +1314,7 @@ sub get_list_role {
}

sub add_categories {
- my ($index) = @_;
+ my ($index, $suffix) = @_;

my $i;
my $start = find_starting_index($index);
@@ -1342,7 +1344,7 @@ sub add_categories {
if (!$hash_list_to{lc($list_address)}) {
$hash_list_to{lc($list_address)} = 1;
push(@list_to, [$list_address,
- "subscriber list${list_role}"]);
+ "subscriber list${list_role}" . $suffix]);
}
}
} else {
@@ -1352,12 +1354,12 @@ sub add_categories {
if ($email_moderated_list) {
$hash_list_to{lc($list_address)} = 1;
push(@list_to, [$list_address,
- "moderated list${list_role}"]);
+ "moderated list${list_role}" . $suffix]);
}
} else {
$hash_list_to{lc($list_address)} = 1;
push(@list_to, [$list_address,
- "open list${list_role}"]);
+ "open list${list_role}" . $suffix]);
}
}
}
@@ -1365,19 +1367,19 @@ sub add_categories {
} elsif ($ptype eq "M") {
if ($email_maintainer) {
my $role = get_maintainer_role($i);
- push_email_addresses($pvalue, $role);
+ push_email_addresses($pvalue, $role . $suffix);
}
} elsif ($ptype eq "R") {
if ($email_reviewer) {
my $subsystem = get_subsystem_name($i);
- push_email_addresses($pvalue, "reviewer:$subsystem");
+ push_email_addresses($pvalue, "reviewer:$subsystem" . $suffix);
}
} elsif ($ptype eq "T") {
- push(@scm, $pvalue);
+ push(@scm, $pvalue . $suffix);
} elsif ($ptype eq "W") {
- push(@web, $pvalue);
+ push(@web, $pvalue . $suffix);
} elsif ($ptype eq "S") {
- push(@status, $pvalue);
+ push(@status, $pvalue . $suffix);
}
}
}