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

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Date:	Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:19:26 -0700
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>
Cc:	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, 2007-08-13 at 16:37 -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 10:42 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > The maintainer info should be in the source file itself! That's the only
> > reasonable way to keep it updated; now I'm all for having it machine
> > parsable so that tools can use it, but it still really should be in the
> > code itself, not in some central file that will always just go out of
> > data, and will be a huge source of needless patch conflicts.
> 
> If the problem is to do with people failing to update the MAINTAINERS
> file, why would moving the same data into 20 or 30 source files motivate
> them to keep it up to date? As far as I can see, that would just serve
> to multiply the amount of stale data...

if each .c file has a MODULE_MAINTAINER() tag... 

people tend to update .c files a lot better than way off-the-side other
files.

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