Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Jul 2008 22:14:48 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] MAINTAINERS service, was: Re: alphabetic ordering of MAINTAINERS |
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On Fri 2008-07-04 14:34:13, Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org> writes: > > >> I wanted to add an entry to MAINTAINERS and while doing it I saw that in > >> the corresponding region the alphabetic ordering is broken. Then I > >> inteded to fix that up for a trivial patch. Next was to check the rest > >> of the file and there are so much misorderings that it's not sensible to > >> choose the trivial path anymore as there are currently 114 entries out > >> of order[1]. > > > > What good does alphabetic ordering? You'll grep it anyway. > > I was thinking about a mailing list / database service instead: > - source file/directory-based (e.g. someone could maintain whole > drivers/, someone else drivers/char and others drivers/char/asdfg.[ch]) > - people would be able to add themselves as "observers" using mail > and/or HTML interface > - sending a patch would automatically trigger Cc: to all people > registered as maintainers (or "observers") for the files modified > - full recipient list would be present in mail sent by the service, so > the following discussion wouldn't need it anymore. It would be used > only for posting patches. > - as such, I don't expect a need for spam filtering - messages > containing no patch would be rejected in the SMTP session. > > Pro: no more missing Cc:, no more manual lookups and guessing, you > just Cc: the service, possibility for "observers". > Con: another thing to create and maintain, you don't immediately know > who exactly has been sent a copy. > > I think I could create a test service but after the test phase it > should probably go to some machine more reliable/able than mine.
If something like that existed/was useful, I guess finding hosting would not be huge problem.
And yes, I like the idea.
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