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5 == DEVELOPERS file and get-developers
7 The main Buildroot directory contains a file named +DEVELOPERS+ that
8 lists the developers involved with various areas of Buildroot. Thanks
9 to this file, the +get-developer+ tool allows to:
11 - Calculate the list of developers to whom patches should be sent, by
12 parsing the patches and matching the modified files with the
13 relevant developers. See xref:submitting-patches[] for details.
15 - Find which developers are taking care of a given architecture or
16 package, so that they can be notified when a build failure occurs on
17 this architecture or package. This is done in interaction with
18 Buildroot's autobuild infrastructure.
20 We ask developers adding new packages, new boards, or generally new
21 functionality in Buildroot, to register themselves in the +DEVELOPERS+
22 file. As an example, we expect a developer contributing a new package
23 to include in his patch the appropriate modification to the
26 The +DEVELOPERS+ file format is documented in detail inside the file
29 The +get-developer+ tool, located in +support/scripts+ allows to use
30 the +DEVELOPERS+ file for various tasks:
32 - When passing one or several patches as command line argument,
33 +get-developer+ will return the appropriate +git send-email+
36 - When using the +-a <arch>+ command line option, +get-developer+ will
37 return the list of developers in charge of the given architecture.
39 - When using the +-p <package>+ command line option, +get-developer+
40 will return the list of developers in charge of the given package.
42 - When using the +-c+ command line option, +get-developer+ will look
43 at all files under version control in the Buildroot repository, and
44 list the ones that are not handled by any developer. The purpose of
45 this option is to help completing the +DEVELOPERS+ file.