Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757375Ab0ANTFN (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:05:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754109Ab0ANTFM (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:05:12 -0500 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:37557 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753448Ab0ANTFL (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:05:11 -0500 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Message-ID: <4B4F6ADC.7090501@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:05:00 +0100 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20100102 SeaMonkey/1.1.18 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joe Perches CC: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/24] MAINTAINERS: Document new "Q:" patchwork queue type References: <4B4F20B3.703@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <4B4F2402.9040008@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <1263490722.1903.12.camel@Joe-Laptop.home> <4B4F5CC8.7020107@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <1263492789.1903.19.camel@Joe-Laptop.home> <4B4F63C4.1040602@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <1263494720.1903.21.camel@Joe-Laptop.home> In-Reply-To: <1263494720.1903.21.camel@Joe-Laptop.home> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2038 Lines: 44 Joe Perches wrote: > On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 19:34 +0100, Stefan Richter wrote: >> MAINTAINERS' MIPS entry links to http://www.linux-mips.org/ >> which in turn points MIPS platform developers to >> http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/. So that's already been taken care of. > > www.google.com gives an easy interface to search for links. > How about we remove all other links in kernel sources? www.google.com is a rather unreliable tool to obtain patch submission addresses. Hence the MAINTAINERS database. This database is especially useful to first-timers and to those who submit patches across the tree or to subsystems with which they normally don't work with. Patchwork listings OTOH are more interesting to those who work with particular subsystems on a more regular basis. Hence there is lesser need to have the same kind of database for them as for the patch submission addresses. Nevertheless, rather exhaustive and always up-to-date listings of patchwork links already exist at http://patchwork.kernel.org/ and http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/. As was pointed out, one or another subsystem may have a patchwork tracker on another site, but this alone is not a reason to add and _maintain_ a huge list of patchwork links in the MAINTAINERS file. Your proposal to add those links into MAINTAINERS does not duplicate Google, it duplicates the entry pages of http://patchwork.kernel.org/ and http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/. And again, the W: entries in MAINTAINERS are an effective way to have auxiliary information accessible from MAINTAINERS --- indirectly, but tailored to the needs of each subsystem group, with the possibility to add arbitrary depth of information, and potentially more up-to-date than 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/