Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Jan 2002 04:44:55 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin |
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On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 09:19:12AM +0000, Russell King wrote: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 04:44:12PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > I have to admit that personally I've always found the MAINTAINERS file > > more of an irritation than anything else. The first place _I_ tend to look > > personally is actually in the source files themselves (although that may > > be a false statistic - the kind of people I tend to have to look up aren't > > the main maintainers at all, but more single driver people etc). > > > > It might not be a bad idea to just make that "mention maintainer at the > > top of the file" the common case. > > There's one problem with that though - if someone maintains many files, > and his email address changes, you end up with a large patch changing all > those email addresses in every file. > > IMHO its far better to have someone's name at the top of each file, and > put the email addresses in the MAINTAINERS file.
Also FWIW I go to MAINTAINERS file first, when I construct the CC line for patches sent to Linus. Poking around the source is annoying and not terribly scalable in my experience.
Jeff
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