Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [PATCH v2 3/3] libnvdimm, MAINTAINERS: Maintainer Entry Profile

Randy Dunlap
2019-09-13T15:00:50Z

On 9/13/19 4:48 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote:

>> So I'm expecting to take this kind of stuff into Documentation/. My own
>> personal hope is that it can maybe serve to shame some of these "local
>> quirks" out of existence. The evidence from this brief discussion suggests
>> that this might indeed happen.
>
> I don't think it's shaming, I think it's validating. Everyone just
> insists that since it's written in the Book of Rules then it's our fault
> for not reading it. It's like those EULA things where there is more
> text than anyone can physically read in a life time.

Yes, agreed.

> And the documentation doesn't help. For example, I knew people's rules
> about capitalizing the subject but I'd just forget. I say that if you
> can't be bothered to add it to checkpatch then it means you don't really
> care that strongly.

If a subsystem requires a certain spelling/capitalization in patch email
subjects, it should be added to MAINTAINERS IMO. E.g.,
E: NuBus

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~Randy