[PATCH] add a ignore list for get_maintainer

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Fri, 8 Mar 2024 17:45:56 +0000
Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at amd.com> wrote:

> On 3/8/2024 5:07 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > Add an opt-out list for get maintainer tool.  This is helpful
> > to avoid getting bounce messages and to allow developers
> > who do not want direct mail.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
> > ---
> >  .get_maintainer.ignore | 11 +++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644 .get_maintainer.ignore
> > 
> > diff --git a/.get_maintainer.ignore b/.get_maintainer.ignore
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 000000000000..f70eee0b0d60
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/.get_maintainer.ignore
> > @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
> > +Chenbo Xia <chenbo.xia at intel.com>
> > +Damian Nowak <damianx.nowak at intel.com>
> > +Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
> > +Gage Eads <gage.eads at intel.com>
> > +Guoyang Zhou <zhouguoyang at huawei.com>
> > +Jiayu Hu <jiayu.hu at intel.com>
> > +Miao Li <miao.li at intel.com>
> > +Pascal Mazon <pascal.mazon at 6wind.com>
> > +Raveendra Padasalagi <raveendra.padasalagi at broadcom.com>
> > +Shreyansh Jain <shreyansh.jain at nxp.com>
> > +Timothy McDaniel <timothy.mcdaniel at intel.com>  
> 
> I wonder if there is a way to get new email address of the user, instead
> of ignoring it, we have all email addressed in '.mailmap', old ones and
> preferred one.

The tool does use mailmap, so it should be finding the new addresses.
For Ferruh that should work. There might be an ordering of addresses in our
mailmap file for some cases where the primary address is not listed first?