On Fri, 2026-01-23 at 14:57 +0000, Alex Bennée wrote: > I wanted to look at adding gitlab tags to MAINTAINERS and baulked > slightly at figuring out what I would need to change in the perl > script to cleanly handle it. > > While we imported the perl script from the kernel I'm fairly sure we > don't use half the features it has and as us grey beards age out less > people will be willing to tweak it. Consider this a proof-of-concept > for discussion about if it is worth perusing this path. > > For v2: > > - added the missing K: keyword support > - added basic --git fallback support > - picked up a few more MAINTAINER updates from list > - updated entries for Arm and *-user > > I've CC'd the kernel maintainers for the script to see if they are > interested in this work.
I think rewrites aren't particularly useful but, your time, your choices. Perhaps the --interactive bit of the script isn't necessary to convert. I don't know that anyone uses it. Adding Florian Mickler who wrote the --interactive code to cc's (15+ years ago now)
