Re: [RFC] How to (automatically) find the correct maintainer(s)

[Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de>]

Richard Knutsson wrote:

> Any thoughts on this is very much appreciated (is there any flaws with
> this?).

The thought that crossed my mind was:

Why not do the same thing that was done to the "Help"-file. (Before it
was superseded by Kconfig).

Originaly there was a central Help-file, with all the texts. Then it was
split and placed in each sub-dir. And later it was superseded by Kconfig.

On the other hand you could skip the intermediate step and just fold the
Maintainer-data directly into Kconfig, that way everything is "in one
place" and you could place a "Maintainers"-Button next to the
"Help"-Button in *config, or just display it alongside the help.

And MAYBE that would also lessen the "update-to-date"-problem, as you
can just write the MAINTAINERs-data when you create/update the
Kconfig-file. Which is a thing that creates much bigger pain when you
forget it accidently. ;-)

Oh, and it neadly solves the mapping-problem, for at least all
kernel-parts that have a Kconfig-option/Sub-Tree.





Bis denn

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