Re: [RFC] MAINTAINERS service, was: Re: alphabetic ordering of MAINTAINERS

Stefan Richter
2008-07-07T13:19:58Z

Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> Uwe Kleine-König <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@digi.com> writes:
>
>> Why not make that a script that parses MAINTAINERS and lives in scripts/
>> and that can be used as --cc-cmd to git-send-email? Then no service
>> needs to be maintained, you don't get the observers functionality
>> though. (But that's what mailing lists are good for.)
>>
>> Of course MAINTAINERS needs to be modified to have the path specifiers.
>
> Because then:
> - the action is not effective immediately but sometimes after few
> months, not counting people still working with 2.6.12 or so.

We expect submissions to based on something more recent than 2.6.12.

Your patch service however...

> - IMHO adding Cc: patch-service is a bit easier than using a script
> - I think the "observers" thing is worth the effort. Now I only see
> changes to certain areas I'm interested in when they are accepted
> upstream.
> - maintaining the script is probably more work than maintaining the
> database :-)
>
> And with a service you can:
> - maintain a patch archive
> - be sure nobody tries to be "creative"
> - perhaps other things I haven't thought about.

...already exists. Check the "L:" entries in MAINTAINERS.
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Stefan Richter
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