Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763341AbXHPPy6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Aug 2007 11:54:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758675AbXHPPys (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Aug 2007 11:54:48 -0400 Received: from smtpq1.tilbu1.nb.home.nl ([213.51.146.200]:60344 "EHLO smtpq1.tilbu1.nb.home.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758632AbXHPPyr (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Aug 2007 11:54:47 -0400 Message-ID: <46C47246.9020800@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 17:50:30 +0200 From: Rene Herman User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Stern CC: Kyle Moffett , Salikh Zakirov , Junio C Hamano , LKML Kernel , Joe Perches , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org, git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [linux-pm] Re: Storing Maintainers info around the kernel tree References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@home.nl for more information X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1245 Lines: 27 On 08/16/2007 05:31 PM, Alan Stern wrote: > Please remember that not everybody uses git. The MAINTAINERS data > should be available in the kernel source itself. It may be useful to generate a MAINTAINERS file into releases yes. I must say though that "why?" would also be a question. I personally don't think there's a whole lot wrong with more and more expecting people who submit patches (for whom this automation is intended) to be using git. Back in the BK days there were lots of reasons for resisting any and all dependency on the source code management tool but there don't seem to be too many left today as far as I'm concerned. If it's about non-developer users, I suspect it would to a fairly large degree be an "in theory" thing to expect that said user does want the information in a downloaded releases, but not in git, and not online where git-web could also easily display all the information right alongside the files. But yes, sure, anything can be generated... Rene. - 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/