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From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [1/2many] - FInd the maintainer(s) for a patch -	scripts/get_maintainer.pl
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:44:39 +0200
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To: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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On 08/15/2007 11:39 AM, Stefan Richter wrote:

> Note, maintainer contacts
>   - should be available to patch submitters and
>   - must be available to *problem reporters*
> without having to have git and a .git repo.

That "must" seems rather strong. But those few non-developer users that 
could care are served by a MAINTAINERS file generated into releases.

Rene.