Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 Jun 2001 16:00:02 -0400 | From | "Eric S. Raymond" <> | Subject | Maintainers master list? |
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Holzrichter, Bruce <bruce.holzrichter@monster.com>: > Now that sounds like a credible idea. Would it be possible to set up a LK > maintainers master list, and host from www.kernel.org or somewhere (Not > knowing anyone at kernel.org, I can't speak for them.) that could be linked > from sites, and have one person or maintainer in charge of keeping track of > who is in charge of maintaining what. This could be a point of contact for > issues like this, and where they can be addressed. It would be a large > administrative project, but could be a point of help for some of us who are > not quite capable of real kernel level hacking yet :o)
I think maintaining such a list separately from the kernel sources themselves will just be asking for extra work and for the database to drift out of sync with reality.
I have proposed that the MAINTAINERS file should be replaced by metadata markup in the kernel sources themselves, distributed so that it will naturally be kept up to date by the people named in it and mechanically gathered into a generated MAINTAINERS at make dep time.
I still think this is the right thing, and was planning to revisit the issue after the 2.5 cutover. But it certainly doesn't have to be me that does it, and between CML2 and the Configure.help file and countering Microsoft's anti-open-source propaganda war I have plenty of other things to worry about.
So if you want to take this on, I encourage you to go to it. Want a copy of the metadata schema I wrote up? -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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