From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rene Herman Subject: Re: [linux-pm] Re: Storing Maintainers info around the kernel tree Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 17:50:30 +0200 Message-ID: <46C47246.9020800@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Kyle Moffett , Salikh Zakirov , Junio C Hamano , LKML Kernel , Joe Perches , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org, git@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Stern X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Aug 16 17:54:56 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ILhgS-0002Ga-H7 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 17:54:52 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758970AbXHPPyt (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Aug 2007 11:54:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758700AbXHPPys (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Aug 2007 11:54:48 -0400 Received: from smtpq1.tilbu1.nb.home.nl ([213.51.146.200]:60344 "EHLO smtpq1.tilbu1.nb.home.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758632AbXHPPyr (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Aug 2007 11:54:47 -0400 Received: from [213.51.146.189] (port=53213 helo=smtp2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl) by smtpq1.tilbu1.nb.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1ILhgD-00017m-6o; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 17:54:37 +0200 Received: from cc334381-b.groni1.gr.home.nl ([82.73.12.33]:51600 helo=[192.168.0.3]) by smtp2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1ILhgB-0007pJ-6x; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 17:54:35 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070728) In-Reply-To: X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@home.nl for more information X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 08/16/2007 05:31 PM, Alan Stern wrote: > Please remember that not everybody uses git. The MAINTAINERS data > should be available in the kernel source itself. It may be useful to generate a MAINTAINERS file into releases yes. I must say though that "why?" would also be a question. I personally don't think there's a whole lot wrong with more and more expecting people who submit patches (for whom this automation is intended) to be using git. Back in the BK days there were lots of reasons for resisting any and all dependency on the source code management tool but there don't seem to be too many left today as far as I'm concerned. If it's about non-developer users, I suspect it would to a fairly large degree be an "in theory" thing to expect that said user does want the information in a downloaded releases, but not in git, and not online where git-web could also easily display all the information right alongside the files. But yes, sure, anything can be generated... Rene.