Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:35:12 -0700 | From | Randy Dunlap <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] List of maintainers (draft #3) |
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On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:09:50 -0700 Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 17:10 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:56:25 +0200 Pavel Machek wrote: > > > Yes please. Manually searching MAINTAINERS is boring and hard... 'Is > > > it NETWORK BLOCK DEVICE' or 'NBD'? 'ALSA' or 'ADVANCED LINUX SOUND > > > SYSTEM'? ... plus if you want subsystem maintainer, search tends to > > > give you about 179 individual driver maintainers, first. > > Well.... both the acronym and long name should be listed IMO. > > Especially the acronym/short name. > > Human based visual searches are error prone. > > There really does need to be some systematic and automated > mechanism to find the maintainers for a particular file. > > Maintainer file patterns, either centralized in MAINTAINERS > or distributed in some mechanism in the file system or git > are useful. > > Linus' original point about "hotness" of MAINTAINERS being > an issue was later refuted by Linus. > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/13/414
I just don't think that it's a big problem like you and Pavel seem to. IOW I'll just disagree.
--- ~Randy
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