Re: MODULE_MAINTAINER

Adrian Bunk
2007-04-26T20:24:27Z

On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 10:02:35PM +0200, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> writes:
>
> > What exactly is missing that the kernel Bugzilla doesn't already offer?
>
> Basically... unless I'm mistaken, nothing of the sort exists there.
>
> Bugzilla is a database of bugs. What is needed is a database of
> people, mailing lists and some network resources.
>
> How do I easily retrieve maintainer's email address for a given
> subsystem from Bugzilla?

Ah, now I get what you want.

You only get this information from MAINTAINERS plus knowledge who
recently touched which code (git helps with the latter).

The problem with such a database would be the same as with the
MAINTAINERS file: The information becomes outdated, and someone has to
maintain it.

Sending a patch against MAINTAINERS is easy - I don't see a
WWW-browseable database being in any respect better than the
MAINTAINERS file.

> Krzysztof Halasa

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Adrian

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