[PATCH v2 1/1] scripts: Add add-maintainer.py

Wed Aug 23 08:14:56 PDT 2023

Hi Guru,

thanks for your patch!  I really to appreciate the discussion about how to
lower the burden for first-time contributors; might you consider cc-ing
workflows at vger.kernel.org when sending v3?

Some additional thoughts to the feedback from Pavan:

On Thu, Aug 03, 2023 at 01:23:16AM -0700 Guru Das Srinagesh wrote:
> This script runs get_maintainer.py on a given patch file and adds its
> output to the patch file in place with the appropriate email headers
> "To: " or "Cc: " as the case may be. These new headers are added after
> the "From: " line in the patch.
> 
> Currently, for a single patch, maintainers are added as "To: ", mailing
> lists and all other roles are addded as "Cc: ".

typo: addded -> added

> 
> For a series of patches, however, a set-union scheme is employed in
> order to solve the all-too-common problem of sending subsets of a patch
> series to some lists, which results in important pieces of context such
> as the cover letter being dropped. This scheme is as follows:
> - Create set-union of all mailing lists corresponding to all patches and
>   add this to all patches as "Cc: "
> - Create set-union of all other roles corresponding to all patches and
>   add this to all patches as "Cc: "
> - Create set-union of all maintainers from all patches and use this to
>   do the following per patch:
>   - add only that specific patch's maintainers as "To: ", and
>   - the other maintainers from the other patches as "Cc: "
> 
> Please note that patch files that don't have any "Maintainer"s
> explicitly listed in their `get_maintainer.pl` output will not have any
> "To: " entries added to them; developers are expected to manually make
> edits to the added entries in such cases to convert some "Cc: " entries
> to "To: " as desired.
> 
> The script is quiet by default (only prints errors) and its verbosity
> can be adjusted via an optional parameter.

IMO, it would be nice to see which addresses are effectively added, e.g.
comparable to the output of git send-email.  Perhaps somehing like:

  $ scripts/add-maintainer.py *.patch
  0001-fixup-scripts-Add-add-maintainer.py.patch: Adding 'To: Guru Das Srinagesh <quic_gurus at quicinc.com>' (maintainer)
  0001-fixup-scripts-Add-add-maintainer.py.patch: Adding 'Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org' (list)

Perhaps verbosity should then be configurable.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Guru Das Srinagesh <quic_gurus at quicinc.com>
> ---
>  scripts/add-maintainer.py | 113 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 113 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100755 scripts/add-maintainer.py
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/add-maintainer.py b/scripts/add-maintainer.py
> new file mode 100755
> index 000000000000..b1682c2945f9
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/scripts/add-maintainer.py
> @@ -0,0 +1,113 @@
> +#! /usr/bin/env python3
> +
> +import argparse
> +import logging
> +import os
> +import sys
> +import subprocess
> +import re
> +
> +def gather_maintainers_of_file(patch_file):
> +    all_entities_of_patch = dict()
> +
> +    # Run get_maintainer.pl on patch file
> +    logging.info("GET: Patch: {}".format(os.path.basename(patch_file)))
> +    cmd = ['scripts/get_maintainer.pl']
> +    cmd.extend([patch_file])
> +    p = subprocess.run(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, check=True)
> +    logging.debug("\n{}".format(p.stdout.decode()))
> +
> +    entries = p.stdout.decode().splitlines()
> +
> +    maintainers = []
> +    lists = []
> +    others = []
> +
> +    for entry in entries:
> +        entity = entry.split('(')[0].strip()
> +        if "maintainer" in entry:
> +            maintainers.append(entity)
> +        elif "list" in entry:
> +            lists.append(entity)
> +        else:
> +            others.append(entity)
> +
> +    all_entities_of_patch["maintainers"] = set(maintainers)
> +    all_entities_of_patch["lists"] = set(lists)
> +    all_entities_of_patch["others"] = set(others)
> +
> +    return all_entities_of_patch
> +
> +def add_maintainers_to_file(patch_file, entities_per_file, all_entities_union):
> +    logging.info("ADD: Patch: {}".format(os.path.basename(patch_file)))
> +
> +    # For each patch:
> +    # - Add all lists from all patches in series as Cc:
> +    # - Add all others from all patches in series as Cc:
> +    # - Add only maintainers of that patch as To:
> +    # - Add maintainers of other patches in series as Cc:
> +
> +    lists = list(all_entities_union["all_lists"])
> +    others = list(all_entities_union["all_others"])
> +    file_maintainers = all_entities_union["all_maintainers"].intersection(entities_per_file[os.path.basename(patch_file)].get("maintainers"))
> +    other_maintainers = all_entities_union["all_maintainers"].difference(entities_per_file[os.path.basename(patch_file)].get("maintainers"))
> +
> +    # Specify email headers appropriately
> +    cc_lists        = ["Cc: " + l for l in lists]
> +    cc_others       = ["Cc: " + o for o in others]
> +    to_maintainers  = ["To: " + m for m in file_maintainers]
> +    cc_maintainers  = ["Cc: " + om for om in other_maintainers]
> +    logging.debug("Cc Lists:\n{}".format('\n'.join(cc_lists)))
> +    logging.debug("Cc Others:\n{}".format('\n'.join(cc_others)))
> +    logging.debug("Cc Maintainers:\n{}".format('\n'.join(cc_maintainers) or None))
> +    logging.debug("To Maintainers:\n{}\n".format('\n'.join(to_maintainers) or None))
> +
> +    # Edit patch file in place to add maintainers
> +    with open(patch_file, "r") as pf:
> +        lines = pf.readlines()
> +
> +    from_line = [i for i, line in enumerate(lines) if re.search("From: ", line)]

(extending Pavan comment on "From:" handling:)

Please use something like line.startswith("From:"), otherwise this catches any
"From: " in the whole file (that's the reason why add-maintainer.py fails on
this very patch).  Actually, you only want to search through the patch (mail)
header block, not through the whole commit msg and the patch body.

> +    if len(from_line) > 1:
> +        logging.error("Only one From: line is allowed in a patch file")
> +        sys.exit(1)
> +
> +    next_line_after_from = from_line[0] + 1
> +
> +    for o in cc_others:
> +        lines.insert(next_line_after_from, o + "\n")
> +    for l in cc_lists:
> +        lines.insert(next_line_after_from, l + "\n")
> +    for om in cc_maintainers:
> +        lines.insert(next_line_after_from, om + "\n")
> +    for m in to_maintainers:
> +        lines.insert(next_line_after_from, m + "\n")
> +
> +    with open(patch_file, "w") as pf:
> +        pf.writelines(lines)
> +
> +def main():
> +    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Add the respective maintainers and mailing lists to patch files')
> +    parser.add_argument('patches', nargs='*', help="One or more patch files")

nargs='+' is one or more
nargs='*' is zero, one or more

> +    parser.add_argument('--verbosity', choices=['debug', 'info', 'error'], default='error', help="Verbosity level of script output")
> +    args = parser.parse_args()
> +
> +    logging.basicConfig(level=args.verbosity.upper(), format='%(levelname)s: %(message)s')
> +
> +    entities_per_file = dict()
> +
> +    for patch in args.patches:
> +        entities_per_file[os.path.basename(patch)] = gather_maintainers_of_file(patch)
> +
> +    all_entities_union = {"all_maintainers": set(), "all_lists": set(), "all_others": set()}
> +    for patch in args.patches:
> +        all_entities_union["all_maintainers"] = all_entities_union["all_maintainers"].union(entities_per_file[os.path.basename(patch)].get("maintainers"))
> +        all_entities_union["all_lists"] = all_entities_union["all_lists"].union(entities_per_file[os.path.basename(patch)].get("lists"))
> +        all_entities_union["all_others"] = all_entities_union["all_others"].union(entities_per_file[os.path.basename(patch)].get("others"))
> +
> +    for patch in args.patches:
> +        add_maintainers_to_file(patch, entities_per_file, all_entities_union)
> +
> +    logging.info("Maintainers added to all patch files successfully")
> +
> +if __name__ == "__main__":
> +    main()
> -- 
> 2.40.0

While testing, I thought that adding addresses without filtering-out duplicates
was odd; but as git-send-email does the unique filtering, it doesn't matter.

For my own workflow, I would rather prefer a git-send-email wrapper, similiar
to the shell alias Krzysztof shared (but I like 'b4' even more).  Do you have
some thoughts about a "smoother" workflow integration?  The best one I could
come up with is

    ln -sr scripts/add-maintainer.py .git/hooks/sendemail-validate
    git config --add --local sendemail.validate true
.

Kind regards,
Nicolas
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