Re: [Ksummit-discuss] single maintainer profile directory (was Re: [PATCH] media: add a subsystem profile documentation)

Jonathan Corbet
2019-09-21T19:13:17Z

On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 08:23:26 -0300
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> wrote:

> A simple/lazy solution would be to apply the enclosed patch - or a
> variant of it that would place the contents of MAINTAINERS outside
> process/index.html, and add instructions about how to use
> get_maintainers.pl.
>
> Jon,
>
> Please let me know if you're willing to accept something like that.

[Sorry for the slowness, I'm kind of tuned out this week]

I guess we could do that as a short-term thing.

In truth, though, this thing is a database; printing it out linearly is
perhaps not the best thing we could do. There should be better ways we
could provide access to it.

Also, that file is nearly 18K lines long. If some unsuspecting person
generates a PDF and prints it, they're going to get something along the
lines of 300 pages of MAINTAINERS, which may not quite be what they had
in mind. It costs (almost) nothing to put that into HTML output, but
other formats could be painful.

So I dunno, we need to think this through a bit...

jon