Messages in this thread | | | Subject | [RFC] MAINTAINERS service, was: Re: alphabetic ordering of MAINTAINERS | From | Krzysztof Halasa <> | Date | Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:34:13 +0200 |
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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.
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