linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v3] docs-rst: user: add MAINTAINERS

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Message-ID: <20160923091501.38cc6a0b@lwn.net>
Date:   Fri, 23 Sep 2016 09:15:01 -0600
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...pensource.com>
Cc:     Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.org>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3] docs-rst: user: add MAINTAINERS

On Fri, 23 Sep 2016 12:07:33 -0300
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...pensource.com> wrote:

> including MAINTAINERS using ReST is tricky, because all
> maintainer's entries are like:

So I'm generally in favor of moving things over to RST, but I have to ask:
what's the payoff for doing that with the MAINTAINERS file?  I *suppose*
it's documentation, but it's also really a flat-file database of
who-to-email information.  I'm not sure I see the value of including it in
the docs?  What am I missing here?

Thanks,

jon