Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932300AbXHQCXT (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Aug 2007 22:23:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760232AbXHQCXG (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Aug 2007 22:23:06 -0400 Received: from smtpq1.groni1.gr.home.nl ([213.51.130.200]:50827 "EHLO smtpq1.groni1.gr.home.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758657AbXHQCXE (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Aug 2007 22:23:04 -0400 Message-ID: <46C5057C.5010602@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 04:18:36 +0200 From: Rene Herman User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Stern CC: Stefan Richter , 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: 1365 Lines: 36 On 08/17/2007 03:58 AM, Alan Stern wrote: > On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, Rene Herman wrote: > >> On 08/16/2007 11:39 PM, Stefan Richter wrote: >>> Rene Herman wrote: >>>> 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. >>> >>> You mean "people who frequently submit patches for various different >>> subsystems". >> >> Erm, I guess. Is that agreeing or disagreeing with me? > > Don't forget also that the MAINTAINERS information is (or should be!) > used by people who want to submit bug reports, not just by people who > submit patches. Bug reporters shouldn't need to use Git. Like I said: >> 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. And again, generating the MAINTAINERS file/info into releases is fine as well. 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/