RFC: MAINTAINER email address style?

Joe Perches
2009-05-10T20:30:42Z

On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 00:13 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 22:30 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > If possible, it would be nice to aggregate multiple entries onto one
> > line. I.e.:
> > P: Len Brown
> > M: len.brown@intel.com
> > P: Pavel Machek
> > M: pavel@ucw.cz
> > P: Rafael J. Wysocki
> > M: rjw@sisk.pl
> > L: linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org
> > S: Supported
> >
> > ->
> >
> > P: Len Brown now <len.brown@intel.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
> > L: linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org
> > S: Supported

Is there a consensus/majority opinion on this?

Should names and email addresses in MAINTAINERS be integrated?
Should it stay as-is or be changed to:

M: name <email>
M: name2 <email2>

or

M: name <email>, name2 <email2>

When multiple names are on a single line,
the M: line length can get relatively long.

The longest lines are 240 chars long.

240 M: Ramkrishna Vepa <ram.vepa@neterion.com>, Rastapur Santosh <santosh.rastapur@neterion.com>, Sivakumar Subramani <sivakumar.subramani@neterion.com>, Sreenivasa Honnur <sreenivasa.honnur@neterion.com>, Anil Murthy <anil.murthy@neterion.com>
238 M: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>, Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>, Pekka Savola (ipv6) <pekkas@netcore.fi>, James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>, Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>, Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
219 M: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>, Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>, Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com>, PJ Waskiewicz <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>, John Ronciak <john.ronciak@intel.com>
185 M: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>, Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>, "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>, Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
167 M: Steve Hodgson <shodgson@solarflare.com>, Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>, Robert Stonehouse <rstonehouse@solarflare.com>, linux-net-drivers@solarflare.com
156 M: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>, Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>, Alok Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>, Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
155 M: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>, Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>, "Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>, Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>