Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754505Ab0HZQnB (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2010 12:43:01 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:41987 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753151Ab0HZQm6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2010 12:42:58 -0400 Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:42:55 +0200 (CEST) From: Jiri Kosina To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Randy Dunlap , James Bottomley , Joe Perches , mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ksummit-2010-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2010-discuss] [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add U: for URL of todo list, add RCU todo list In-Reply-To: <20100826093838.74ab9958@infradead.org> Message-ID: References: <20100826154537.GA4874@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1282837904.1875.64.camel@Joe-Laptop> <20100826161451.GB2367@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1282839933.8133.11.camel@mulgrave.site> <20100826092923.4bdbea69.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <20100826093838.74ab9958@infradead.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LNX 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1363 Lines: 31 On Thu, 26 Aug 2010, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > I have to say that I'm not yet convinced that keeping a todo list in a > place that's not with the actual source code does not give me warm fuzzy > feelings. Every time we've kept information about the source code > separate from our source code it's been a failure; it gets out of sync > fast and it just adds to the maintenance. > > A git commit that both fixes an issue and removed the line from the todo > file (or moves it to a "done" section, whatever) is the ultimate goal > obviously... having a U: seems to go in exactly the opposite direction. > > otoh having a kernel-doc type (eg structured, parsable) way of > gathering todo items throughout the tree.... that I can see as useful. I still feel that if maintainer is willing to keep TODO list on web for whatever reason (hyperlinks, nice tables, images, whatever), then he should be free to do so. The U: (or whatever) tag in MAINTAINERS file still could point to file in the actual sources, in cases maintainer choses to have the list there, of course. -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. -- 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/