Messages in this thread | | | From | Andreas Dilger <> | Date | Fri, 20 Apr 2001 15:23:32 -0600 (MDT) |
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Russell King writes: > - Secondly, its very easy to miss stuff in the lkml hunk of email each > day when you have less than 4 hours to read it and think about it. > (note that architecture maintainers have to read mail from their > side which may not be on lkml, think about that, think about bug fixes, > possible impacts of fixes on other machines, etc etc). Therefore, > copying their email address registered in the MAINTAINER file means > that they should not overlook your patch.
One of the issues for contacting each MAINTAINER is that this information is out-of-line from the actual kernel tree. The other is that the description of what a maintainer is actually controlling is somewhat vague.
How about the following: - each directory has a MAINTAINERS file which lists parties with a vested interest in files in that directory (format is mostly the same as current) - subdirectories which don't have a MAINTAINERS file use the MAINTAINERS file of the parent (or grandparent) directory - each maintainer entry explicitly lists each file/directory that this person is interested in, maybe "F: {file | directory} ...".
I'm sure Eric can come up with a simple program to parse the MAINTAINER file/tree. If the program takes a kernel-tree relative filename and spit out the name/email of the relevant maintainer (subsystem and port specific mailing lists should also be included), that would make the job of finding out who to send patches to a whole lot easier.
My one gripe about the MAINTAINERS file is that it still lists Remy Card as EXT2 maintainer, so we would probably need to do a find on the whole kernel tree, email each address a list of files that they "maintain" and wait until they complain, agree, or time out. Once the database is up-to-date, it simplifies the job of keeping maintainers (and other interested parties) in the loop.
Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto, \ would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?" http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ -- Dogbert - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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