Re: [PATCH] [1/2many] - FInd the maintainer(s) for a patch - scripts/get_maintainer.pl

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>]

On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 06:47:20AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 10:20 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > MODULE_MAINTAINER() was discussed a while ago but embedding information into 
> > > the binary has the problem you can't ever change deployed systems, meaning 
> > > it lags by design. If a maintainer changes, people would still be using the 
> > > information from their old binaries, meaning a replaced maintainer might get 
> > > contacted for potentially years still (and the new one not).
> > 
> > And as was pointed out at the time, the people whining about that were
> > talking out of the wrong equipment. The supplier of the code can no more
> > or less easily change the binary as the matching source tree once its been
> > shipped. In fact its probably easier to change the binaries as the
> > sources will be left on CD.
> > 
> > The only non-stale source is git-blame.
> 
> the other angle is this: if someone becomes the new maintainer, does he
> really want to "maintain" all the really old versions of the code out
> there that predate him, or does he only want to go forward? 
>...

What about cases like maintainers using company email addresses and 
changing company?

E.g. Jens is still block layer maintainer but the @suse address he used 
for years suddenly no longer existed after he left Suse.

cu
Adrian

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