linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [1/2many] - FInd the maintainer(s) for a patch

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Date:	Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:16:30 -0400
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
To:	Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>
Cc:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@...land.pl>,
	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [1/2many] - FInd the maintainer(s) for a patch - scripts/get_maintainer.pl

On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 08:41:03PM +0200, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org> writes:
> 
> > The maintainer info should be in the source file itself!
> 
> Nope, it should be outside of the (downloadable) tarball, because
> once someone get a tarball you can't update the data in it.
> This is fine WRT source (which is static given a version) but
> doesn't work for fast-changing data.

But the maintainers file is in the tarball today.  If someone wants to
take the information from the latest git tree, gather it up into a
single html file, and put it on the web, more power to them.  But it
seems that the master source of the data should be the source file.

      	       	      	     	    - Ted
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