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

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Message-ID: <1474647994.1849.1.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Fri, 23 Sep 2016 09:26:34 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...pensource.com>,
        Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:     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, 2016-09-23 at 12:07 -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> So, let's use an unusual approach: manually convert the
> text at the MAINTAINERS file head, adding it at a new
> Documentation/user/MAINTAINERS.rst, and include, as a code
> block, the rest of MAINTAINERS contents, with only the
> contents of the maintainers entries.
> 
> There's a side effect of this approach: now, if the
> explanation text at the MAINTAINERS file is touched, it should be
> modified also at the Documentation/user/MAINTAINERS.rst file.
> Yet, as the number of changes there are small, this
> should be manageable.

couldn't this be a generated file from some awk script instead
of being duplicated content with a plea to be kept in sync?

> diff --git a/Documentation/user/MAINTAINERS.rst b/Documentation/user/MAINTAINERS.rst
> new file mode 100644

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