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    scripts/get_maintainer.pl: optionally ignore non-maintainer signatures · e4d26b02
    Joe Perches authored
    
    
    When using --git to determine who to send a patch to, get_maintainers will
    currently include all signatures.  This can include signers that simply
    report an issue or test a patch.  Signers that use this tag are not
    necessarily good candidates to review new patches.
    
    This patch allows get_maintainers to optionally restrict output to only
    signatures that use Signed-off-by:, Acked-by:, or Reviewed-by:.
    
    Signed-off-by: is included because those are people who are responsible
    for the code.
    
    Acked-by: is questionable, but as signers that use this tag tend to be
    active linux gatekeepers, false positives are tolerable.
    
    Reviewed-by: is included because signers responsible for the code thought
    that the review feedback for a changeset by that signer was valuable.
    
    This patch has been modified from Florian's original submission to change
    the supported signature types to the canonical forms and use slightly
    different spacing.  A couple of spacing issues were also corrected in the
    original source.  The command line argument was also renamed.
    
    Original-patch-by: default avatarFlorian Mickler <florian@mickler.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarFlorian Mickler <florian@mickler.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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