From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>,
Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>,
Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [1/2many] - FInd the maintainer(s) for a patch - scripts/get_maintainer.pl
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:48:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070814014853.GA3872@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1187054366.2757.0.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 06:19:26PM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 16:37 -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > If the problem is to do with people failing to update the MAINTAINERS
> > file, why would moving the same data into 20 or 30 source files motivate
> > them to keep it up to date? As far as I can see, that would just serve
> > to multiply the amount of stale data...
>
> if each .c file has a MODULE_MAINTAINER() tag...
>
> people tend to update .c files a lot better than way off-the-side other
> files.
I think this approach makes a lot more sense than adding a bunch of
data to MAINTAINERS all for a tool that I'll wager few people would
ever use.
John
--
John W. Linville
linville@tuxdriver.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-14 2:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-13 5:49 [PATCH] [1/2many] - FInd the maintainer(s) for a patch - scripts/get_maintainer.pl Joe Perches
2007-08-13 6:42 ` Michal Piotrowski
2007-08-13 7:16 ` Al Viro
2007-08-13 16:22 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-08-13 17:40 ` Rene Herman
2007-08-13 15:43 ` Kok, Auke
2007-08-13 19:40 ` Richard Knutsson
2007-08-13 20:28 ` Kok, Auke
2007-08-13 20:43 ` Richard Knutsson
2007-08-13 17:09 ` Ray Lee
2007-08-13 18:11 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-08-13 21:04 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-08-13 17:33 ` Mariusz Kozlowski
2007-08-13 17:42 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-08-13 18:07 ` Mariusz Kozlowski
2007-08-13 18:10 ` Rene Herman
2007-08-13 18:32 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-08-13 19:21 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-08-13 19:53 ` Richard Knutsson
2007-08-13 20:05 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-08-13 18:41 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-08-13 19:02 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-08-13 20:16 ` Theodore Tso
2007-08-13 20:37 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-08-14 1:19 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-08-14 1:48 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2007-08-14 1:51 ` Rene Herman
2007-08-14 2:04 ` Rene Herman
2007-08-14 9:20 ` Alan Cox
2007-08-14 13:47 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-08-14 14:28 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-08-14 14:33 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-08-14 15:53 ` Rene Herman
2007-08-14 17:00 ` Joe Perches
2007-08-14 18:03 ` Rene Herman
2007-08-14 18:28 ` Joe Perches
2007-08-14 18:33 ` Rene Herman
2007-08-14 18:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-14 18:54 ` Joe Perches
2007-08-14 19:33 ` Al Viro
2007-08-14 19:57 ` Joe Perches
2007-08-15 1:19 ` Rene Herman
2007-08-15 13:33 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-08-15 13:39 ` Rene Herman
2007-08-15 13:52 ` Kyle Moffett
2007-08-16 10:58 ` Rene Herman
2007-08-16 11:08 ` Rene Herman
2007-08-16 11:26 ` Salikh Zakirov
2007-08-16 11:26 ` Salikh Zakirov
2007-08-16 11:57 ` Rene Herman
2007-08-16 15:40 ` Al Viro
2007-08-16 15:53 ` Rene Herman
2007-08-16 19:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-17 4:24 ` Rene Herman
2007-08-15 19:37 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-08-15 23:19 ` Al Viro
2007-08-15 1:35 ` Richard Knutsson
2007-08-15 9:29 ` Stefan Richter
2007-08-15 15:31 ` Ray Lee
2007-08-16 20:36 ` Joe Perches
2007-08-15 1:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-15 2:12 ` Joe Perches
2007-08-15 5:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-15 5:42 ` Rene Herman
2007-08-15 9:39 ` Stefan Richter
2007-08-15 11:44 ` Rene Herman
2007-08-15 17:26 ` Joe Perches
2007-08-17 2:13 ` Joe Perches
2007-08-17 2:30 ` Joe Perches
2007-08-17 17:54 ` [PATCH] - git-send-email.perl Joe Perches
2007-08-17 23:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-18 1:51 ` Joe Perches
2007-08-14 14:22 ` [PATCH] [1/2many] - FInd the maintainer(s) for a patch - scripts/get_maintainer.pl Adrian Bunk
2007-08-14 14:33 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-08-14 14:45 ` John W. Linville
2007-08-14 2:15 ` Manu Abraham
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-08-13 6:09 Joe Perches
2007-08-13 16:24 ` Sam Ravnborg
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