Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:19:29 +0200 | From | Stefan Richter <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] MAINTAINERS service, was: Re: alphabetic ordering of MAINTAINERS |
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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. -- Stefan Richter -=====-==--- -=== --=== http://arcgraph.de/sr/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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