Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754151AbYGGNT6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jul 2008 09:19:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753189AbYGGNTu (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jul 2008 09:19:50 -0400 Received: from hp3.statik.tu-cottbus.de ([141.43.120.68]:34266 "EHLO hp3.statik.tu-cottbus.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752678AbYGGNTt (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jul 2008 09:19:49 -0400 Message-ID: <487217E1.2040205@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:19:29 +0200 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080313 SeaMonkey/1.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Krzysztof Halasa CC: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Uwe_Kleine-K=F6nig?= , Oliver Neukum , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , David Woodhouse Subject: Re: [RFC] MAINTAINERS service, was: Re: alphabetic ordering of MAINTAINERS References: <20080704063455.GA13999@digi.com> <200807040852.27809.oliver@neukum.org> <20080704134426.GA32700@digi.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1526 Lines: 40 Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > Uwe Kleine-K?nig 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/