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

[Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de>]

Stefan Richter wrote:
> On 14 Jan, Richard Knutsson wrote:
> 
>>(Really liked the idea to have a "Maintainer"-button 
>>next to "Help" in *config)
> 
> 
> Rhetorical question: What will this button be used for?

Having "all(tm)" information of something in one place?
Help-Text and Dependencies/Selects are already there.
I think adding the Maintainers-data is more or less a logical next step.

It's not always clear from the MAINTAINERS-file who is the right person
for what. Especially as it is a rather large text-file with only
mediocre search-friendlieness. It's a 3.5 K-lines file!

So when you know that you have a problem with drivers X, wouldn't it be
great if you could just "go to" the driver in *config and see not only
the Help-Text but the Maintainers-Data also.
And you can place "Fallback"-Maintainers-Data on Tree-Parents, for the
cases where you only can pinpoint a area, like when you have a problem
with a USB-device.


I can ask a rhetorical question too:
Why not go back to Config.help. Having a huge X K-Lines file with
everything in one file can't be that bad. It worked before!




Bis denn

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