On 05/11/2007 05:52 PM, Takashi Iwai wrote: >> Following up the recent MODULE_MAINTAINER discussion on LKML: >> >> http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/4/170 >> >> that concluded with MODULE_MAINTAINER not being a good idea, here's a patch >> that just deletes the email addresses from the MODULE_AUTHOR tags for ALSA. >> >> The email address is the problem I was trying to fix; with multiple current >> and non-current authors and maintainers who might not even be authors the >> address(es) available from the tag confuse the issue of whom to contact. >> It's moreover also information that easily outdated. >> >> A bit more than half of the tags in the kernel don't include an email >> address already (the core contributors typically don't include any) and I'll >> submit patches removing more. > > Did we get consensus about this removal action? > I've seen only one follow up by Krzysztof. > (I personlly don't mind to remove mail addresses, though.) Yep, Krysztof was the only one to specifically ACK but seeing as how I asked for objections: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/27/488 I took not seeing any as more ACKs. Alan Cox is objecting a bit again though preferring the originally proposed MODULE_MAINTAINER: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/10/628 I seem unlikely to convince him but I believe it's upto specific subsystems whether or not they'll take patches removing the email adresses from the tag, ie, in the case of ALSA upto you and Jaroslav. I do believe it actually solves a problem. In the end, all that I really care about are the ones that I specifically want to take on (which in the case of ALSA is eventually most or all of isa/, but I'm not sufficiently upto speed yet, and certainly not on the _real_ driver code as opposed to the bus glue) but in a global sense, I'd like to just see them all go. Rene. _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
