Re: [Ksummit-2010-discuss] [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add U: for URL of todo list, add RCU todo list

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>]

On Wednesday, September 01, 2010, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 16:02 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> 
> > > We could add a toplevel "todo/" directory, with each project file in it
> > > and a list of things todo. When the todo is done, that same commit could
> > > remove the todo item.
> > > 
> > > Just a worthless thought ;-)
> > 
> > I am with Dmitry on this one.  I really don't want to be prevented from
> > updating my todo items outside of the merge window.
> > 
> > Different people have different needs, so we need to accommodate todo
> > lists both within and outside the kernel source tree.
> 
> Actually, that would probably happen automatically.
> 
> If you are working on a subsystem, you should probably be working
> against the git tree for that subsystem. When something is done in the
> todo list, the subsystem tree would be updated with the commit that does
> said change.
> 
> Then, the list is maintained outside of mainline (in the subsystem git
> tree) and will automatically update mainline in the next merge window
> when the tree is pulled.

Seriously, given the known history of Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt,
I don't think this is going to work.

Thanks,
Rafael