Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 13 Jan 2007 21:03:14 +0100 | From | Matthias Schniedermeyer <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] How to (automatically) find the correct maintainer(s) |
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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 (Before it was superseded by Kconfig).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 And later it was superseded by Kconfig.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
-- Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as bad a concept in Text Editors as it is in women. No, the Real Programmer wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor -- complicated, cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous.
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