From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.2 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_SANE_2 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79195C4360D for ; Sat, 21 Sep 2019 19:13:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F88A2073F for ; Sat, 21 Sep 2019 19:13:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1732340AbfIUTNP (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Sep 2019 15:13:15 -0400 Received: from ms.lwn.net ([45.79.88.28]:41768 "EHLO ms.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727755AbfIUTNP (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Sep 2019 15:13:15 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ms.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 643B04FA; Sat, 21 Sep 2019 19:13:13 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2019 13:13:07 -0600 From: Jonathan Corbet To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Cc: Kees Cook , ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org, Linux Media Mailing List Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] single maintainer profile directory (was Re: [PATCH] media: add a subsystem profile documentation) Message-ID: <20190921131307.77d01ebb@lwn.net> In-Reply-To: <20190918082326.49a19a24@coco.lan> References: <156821693963.2951081.11214256396118531359.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com> <434c05bddd2b364e607e565227487910a8dd9793.1568391461.git.mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> <201909162032.F4462D3@keescook> <20190917102817.263517b5@coco.lan> <201909170930.B8AD840@keescook> <20190918082326.49a19a24@coco.lan> Organization: LWN.net X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.17.3 (GTK+ 2.24.32; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-media@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 08:23:26 -0300 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 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