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From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>,
	Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>,
	Salikh Zakirov <salikh@gmail.com>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	LKML Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [linux-pm] Re: Storing Maintainers info around the kernel tree
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 04:18:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46C5057C.5010602@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0708162156550.9927-100000@netrider.rowland.org>

On 08/17/2007 03:58 AM, Alan Stern wrote:

> On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, Rene Herman wrote:
> 
>> On 08/16/2007 11:39 PM, Stefan Richter wrote:
>>> Rene Herman wrote:

>>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> You mean "people who frequently submit patches for various different
>>> subsystems".
>> 
>> Erm, I guess. Is that agreeing or disagreeing with me?
> 
> Don't forget also that the MAINTAINERS information is (or should be!)
> used by people who want to submit bug reports, not just by people who
> submit patches.  Bug reporters shouldn't need to use Git.

Like I said:

>> 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.

And again, generating the MAINTAINERS file/info into releases is fine as well.

Rene.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-17  2:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <46bffbd3.IqsNHrHU1Y9BF7Dd%joe@perches.com>
     [not found] ` <20070814232430.GA9325@redhat.com>
     [not found]   ` <2ABEF126-D860-46D2-8E15-673C3ADB51A0@mac.com>
     [not found]     ` <200708151321.05959.rjw@sisk.pl>
2007-08-16 13:04       ` Storing Maintainers info around the kernel tree Kyle Moffett
2007-08-16 15:13         ` Rene Herman
2007-08-16 15:31           ` [linux-pm] " Alan Stern
2007-08-16 15:50             ` Rene Herman
2007-08-16 21:39               ` Stefan Richter
2007-08-17  1:43                 ` Rene Herman
2007-08-17  1:58                   ` Alan Stern
2007-08-17  2:18                     ` Rene Herman [this message]
2007-08-17  6:25                       ` Stefan Richter

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