Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:12:56 +0100 | From | Ben Dooks <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] List of maintainers (draft #3) |
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On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:12:39AM +0200, Uwe Kleine-K?nig wrote: > On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 12:54:56PM -0200, Denis Vlasenko wrote: > > After recent discussion on Linux development practices I think it may be > > worthy to have list of lk maintainers. Unlike one included into kernel > > source, this document is meant to be monthly (weekly?) mailed to lkml > > and to be modified whenever new victim wishes to be listed in it > > or someone can no longer devote his time to maintainer work. > I don't see an advantage of a regular mail compared to a file in the > tree, but obviously YMMV. > > But another thing really bothers me: I think there should not be more > than one place I have to look up manually for maintainers. Currently I > have ~100 easy patches pending and the most time consuming part of > finishing these is looking up the right address to send to send them to. > Currently I already have to check the modified files for a maintainer > entry, MAINTAINERS and the history of the files. > > IMHO this could be automated with some effort. I currently imagine: > - a MAINTAINERS maintainer?! > - a certain format to specify a maintainer of a single file in that > file (e.g. in a specially marked comment) to prevent overloading > MAINTAINERS > - maybe a per-directory .maintainers file.
I was thinking of at least making MAINTAINERS per-subsystem, it is a large file and would be easier for the people submitting patcehs to avoid having to touch a common file.
> - add a field to each entry in MAINTAINERS specifying a regular > expression or shell wildcard of the corresponding files and > directories. > - a script that takes a patch and extracts the addresses from the above > sources (and optionally calls git send-email)
I think that is also a good idea.
> If you want to do that with an externally maintained source thats OK for > me, too, provided it eases patch submission. > > Best regards > Uwe > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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