Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 1 Sep 2010 11:02:14 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [Ksummit-2010-discuss] [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add U: for URL of todo list, add RCU todo list |
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> If I just downloaded a big tar ball and started trolling randomly > through the source how am I going to know what the MAINTAINERS file is?
Probably because you started with Documentation/* which explains it in SubmittingPatches for one ?
> I just think that hoping a newbie is going to naturally know MAINTAINERS > isn't the best.
If they can't find the MAINTAINERS file in the top level directory, and haven't read SubmittingPatches either then maybe that's not a complete disaster at that point ?
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