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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: MODULE_MAINTAINER
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 17:02:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070404150231.GE27660@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1175698135.5815.447.camel@violet>

On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 04:48:55PM +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi Christoph,
> 
> > > Can we have a MODULE_MAINTAINER to complement MODULE_AUTHOR?
> > 
> > #define MODULE_MAINTAINER(x) MODULE_AUTHOR(x), please.
> > MODULE_AUTHOR really has meant maintainer in practice for ages, and it's
> > the only actually relevant for users information we should store.
> 
> I agree. The actual author information belong into the files copyright
> header. The MODULE_AUTHOR should only show the current maintainer and
> its email address. However this might need some cleanup. Maybe it is
> time that we sync the MAINTAINERS file with the MODULE_AUTHOR tag.

Or even remove the MODULE_AUTHOR tag?

Even if you would spend the time for syncing the > 1600 MODULE_AUTHOR 
tags today, I don't see this happen on an ongoing basis in the future.

> Regards
> 
> Marcel

cu
Adrian

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-04 15:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-04 11:26 MODULE_MAINTAINER Rene Herman
2007-04-04 11:29 ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Rene Herman
2007-04-04 12:33 ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Christoph Hellwig
2007-04-04 13:02   ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Rene Herman
2007-04-04 14:57     ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Adrian Bunk
2007-04-04 16:33       ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Stefan Richter
2007-04-04 16:38         ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Adrian Bunk
2007-04-04 16:45           ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Stefan Richter
2007-04-04 14:48   ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Marcel Holtmann
2007-04-04 15:02     ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2007-04-04 15:50       ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Rene Herman
2007-04-04 16:00         ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Alan Cox
2007-04-04 16:06           ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Marcel Holtmann
2007-04-04 16:38           ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Rene Herman
2007-04-04 17:00             ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Takashi Iwai
2007-04-04 17:48               ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Adrian Bunk
2007-04-04 18:01                 ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Rene Herman
2007-04-04 19:12                   ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Adrian Bunk
2007-04-05  0:08                     ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Stefan Richter
2007-04-23  9:33             ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Rene Herman
2007-04-23 11:24               ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Rusty Russell
2007-04-23 11:52                 ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Robert P. J. Day
2007-04-23 12:00                   ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Robert P. J. Day
2007-04-23 12:32                   ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Rene Herman
2007-04-26  1:18                     ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Andrew Morton
2007-04-26 10:03                       ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Rusty Russell
2007-04-26 10:41                       ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Rene Herman
2007-04-26 13:54                         ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Adrian Bunk
2007-04-26 14:55                           ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Rene Herman
2007-04-26 16:00                             ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Alan Cox
2007-04-26 16:45                               ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Rene Herman
2007-04-26 15:41                           ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Randy Dunlap
2007-04-26 15:52                             ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Adrian Bunk
2007-04-26 16:44                               ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Randy Dunlap
2007-04-26 17:12                                 ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Adrian Bunk
2007-04-26 19:37                               ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Krzysztof Halasa
2007-04-26 19:43                                 ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Adrian Bunk
2007-04-26 20:02                                   ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Krzysztof Halasa
2007-04-26 20:24                                     ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Adrian Bunk
2007-04-26 21:51                                       ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Krzysztof Halasa
2007-04-26 22:01                                         ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Adrian Bunk
2007-04-26 22:07                                           ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Krzysztof Halasa
2007-04-26 22:28                                       ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Rene Herman
2007-04-26 20:11                                   ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Rene Herman
2007-04-26 22:24                                     ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Gene Heskett
2007-04-27  9:06                                       ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Stefan Richter
2007-04-26 22:03                               ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Rene Herman
2007-04-27 21:06                                 ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Rene Herman
2007-04-28 21:03                                   ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Krzysztof Halasa
2007-04-23 23:46                   ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Rusty Russell

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