Re: alphabetic ordering of MAINTAINERS

Bernd Petrovitsch
2008-07-04T12:03:18Z

On Fre, 2008-07-04 at 08:52 +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> Am Freitag 04 Juli 2008 08:34:55 schrieb Uwe Kleine-König:
[...]
> > I wanted to add an entry to MAINTAINERS and while doing it I saw that in
> > the corresponding region the alphabetic ordering is broken. Then I
> > inteded to fix that up for a trivial patch. Next was to check the rest
> > of the file and there are so much misorderings that it's not sensible to
> > choose the trivial path anymore as there are currently 114 entries out
> > of order[1].
>
> What good does alphabetic ordering? You'll grep it anyway.

If two (or more) people submit patches to add a maintainer entry, is is
less likely to conflict.
And duplicates are more easily detected (without tools).

Bernd
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