linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] List of maintainers (draft #3)

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Message-Id: <20080930173512.c221ade7.rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Date:	Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:35:12 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Ben Dooks <ben-linux@...ff.org>,
	Uwe Kleine-K?nig <ukleinek@...len.de>,
	Denis Vlasenko <vda@...t.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] List of maintainers (draft #3)

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.

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~Randy
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