Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:48:53 -0400 | | From | "John W. Linville" <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [1/2many] - FInd the maintainer(s) for a patch - scripts/get_maintainer.pl |
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On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 06:19:26PM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 16:37 -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > If the problem is to do with people failing to update the MAINTAINERS > > file, why would moving the same data into 20 or 30 source files motivate > > them to keep it up to date? As far as I can see, that would just serve > > to multiply the amount of stale data... > > if each .c file has a MODULE_MAINTAINER() tag... > > people tend to update .c files a lot better than way off-the-side other > files.
I think this approach makes a lot more sense than adding a bunch of data to MAINTAINERS all for a tool that I'll wager few people would ever use.
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