Re: [XEN PATCH] get_maintainer: Add maintainers based on keyword after removing THE REST

[Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

On 01.07.2026 18:20, Anthony PERARD wrote:
> From: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> There's some logic to avoid CC committers (THE REST section) when a
> file is fully maintained by a list of maintainers. There's also some
> logic to add maintainers if a patch or file contains some keywords.
> 
> We do add maintainers based on keyword to the list of $email_to before
> checking if we can remove emails from THE REST. And at the time when
> checking if we can drop THE REST, we've lost the information which
> tell if the maintainers was added because of a keyword of because they
> maintain the file.
> 
> Reorder the logic, add maintainers based on keywords only after
> checking if we can drop THE REST.
> 
> For example, if we have a file covered by a sections with only
> reviewers, but this file also contains the keyword "XSM", then:
>     scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f $file
> would suppress THE REST without this patch.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@xxxxxxxxxx>

Seeing that no-one else (with better Perl knowledge than mine) responded
so far, based on this looking plausible:
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>

Jan