linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] Add maintainers to the admin guide

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Date:   Wed, 7 Dec 2016 16:47:46 +0100
From:   Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>
To:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...pensource.com>
Cc:     Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@...marit.de>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Add maintainers to the admin guide

On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 10:15:13AM -0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> That's my third attempt to add the MAINTAINERS contents to the admin-guide.
> 
> On the past approaches, was planning to keep the documentation
> about what's at the MAINTAINERS file inside it, but that would
> require running an external script or use some Sphinx extension.
> 
> This time, I took a much simpler approach: convert the initial
> part of the MAINTAINERS file to ReST and move to a file at the
> admin-guide. So, MAINTAINERS file will now contain only the
> maintainer's database, and a single line pointing to its documentation.
> 
> That should hopefully be a good compromise, as we can add its
> contents to a Sphinx file without causing too much hasle.

Yeah, this seems like a rather neat approach and hopefully keeps everyone
happy. Will probably conflict since there's some in-flight patches to
document the new B: tag a bit better. Anyway:

Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>

> 
> 
> Mauro Carvalho Chehab (2):
>   MAINTAINERS: convert first part to ReST markup
>   MAINTAINERS: add it to the admin-guide
> 
>  Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst       |   1 +
>  Documentation/admin-guide/maintainers.rst | 184 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  MAINTAINERS                               | 125 +-------------------
>  3 files changed, 187 insertions(+), 123 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/admin-guide/maintainers.rst
> 
> -- 
> 2.9.3
> 
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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