Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: standardize git.kernel.org URLs

[Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>]

Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez@gmail.com> writes:

> On 6/25/25 7:27 PM, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
>
>> Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez@gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>>> replace https: with git:, delete trailing /, and identify repos as "git"
>>>
>>> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> (maintainer:DOCUMENTATION)
>>> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
>>> Cc: DOC ML <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org> (open list:DOCUMENTATION)
>>> Cc: KERNEL ML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> (open list)
>>> Signed-off-by: Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez@gmail.com>
>>> ---
>>>   MAINTAINERS | 50 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------
>>>   1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
>
>> So ... we're changing GitHub URLs from git: to https:, and Gitlab URLs
>> from https: to git:?
>> 
>> Certainly we want to fix URLs that are broken, but is there any real
>> reason to churn up the MAINTAINERS file to "fix" URLs that work?
>
> The reason was to be *consistent* with the rest of the entries.
> Because most of them(380) are using git:, vs 22 for https:

Why are we concerned about consistency here?

As you will have observed with your other patch, wholesale changes to a
file like MAINTAINERS lead to merge conflicts.  We can handle those - if
there is a good reason.  I'm not convinced that "consistency" counts as
such.  Let's just let the maintainers present their trees as they wish.

Thanks,

jon