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Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 04:44:55 -0500
From: Jeff Garzik <garzik@havoc.gtf.org>
To: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>, Chris Ricker <kaboom@gatech.edu>,
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Subject: Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin
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On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 09:19:12AM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 04:44:12PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > I have to admit that personally I've always found the MAINTAINERS file
> > more of an irritation than anything else. The first place _I_ tend to look
> > personally is actually in the source files themselves (although that may
> > be a false statistic - the kind of people I tend to have to look up aren't
> > the main maintainers at all, but more single driver people etc).
> > 
> > It might not be a bad idea to just make that "mention maintainer at the
> > top of the file" the common case.
> 
> There's one problem with that though - if someone maintains many files,
> and his email address changes, you end up with a large patch changing all
> those email addresses in every file.
> 
> IMHO its far better to have someone's name at the top of each file, and
> put the email addresses in the MAINTAINERS file.

Also FWIW I go to MAINTAINERS file first, when I construct the CC line
for patches sent to Linus.  Poking around the source is annoying and not
terribly scalable in my experience.

	Jeff



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