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    scripts/get_maintainer.pl: default to not include unspecified tags · 0fa05599
    Florian Mickler authored
    This changes the default of the option --git-all-signature-types to be
    disabled by default.
    
    The effect being, that only certain (currently Signed-Off-By:, Acked-by:
    and Reviewed-By:) tags are used to get adresses of potential maintainers.
    
    Motivated is this change by the desire to not 'spam' people unnecessary: A
    Tested-By or a Reported-By is not ment as a hint that those people want
    to/are able to review patches to the code in question.
    
    In a quest to find resilient statistics for this i came up with this:
    
    I produced a list of all the tag-signers not already covered with a
    signed-off/acked/reviewed tag somewhere in the last year of git history.
    
    Those were 650 addresses of "assumed non-developers".
    
    And to check if those "assumed non-developers" are professional
    testers/reporters worth cc'ing, i then counted their total appearences
    in the git log:
    
    469 were mentioned only once.
    123 were mentioned twice.
    38 three times
    8 four times
    5 six...
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