linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] MAINTAINERS service, was: Re: alphabetic ordering of MAINTAINERS

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Message-ID: <m37ic1zqqp.fsf@maximus.localdomain>
Date:	Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:08:30 +0200
From:	Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>
To:	Uwe Kleine-König <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@...i.com>
Cc:	Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org>,
	"linux-kernel\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] MAINTAINERS service, was: Re: alphabetic ordering of MAINTAINERS

Uwe Kleine-König <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@...i.com> writes:

> Why not make that a script that parses MAINTAINERS and lives in scripts/
> and that can be used as --cc-cmd to git-send-email?  Then no service
> needs to be maintained, you don't get the observers functionality
> though.  (But that's what mailing lists are good for.)
>
> Of course MAINTAINERS needs to be modified to have the path specifiers.

Because then:
- the action is not effective immediately but sometimes after few
  months, not counting people still working with 2.6.12 or so.
- IMHO adding Cc: patch-service is a bit easier than using a script
- I think the "observers" thing is worth the effort. Now I only see
  changes to certain areas I'm interested in when they are accepted
  upstream.
- maintaining the script is probably more work than maintaining the
  database :-)

And with a service you can:
- maintain a patch archive
- be sure nobody tries to be "creative"
- perhaps other things I haven't thought about.
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa
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