On 08/14/2007 08:15 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
Quite frankly, I think the MAINTAINERS file gets a whole lot uglier this
way.
There's also a rather fundamental issue: this will likely make people
touch the MAINTAINERS file *more*, and from a maintenance standpoint, that
is exactly the wrong thing to have (one central file that everybody
touches). It just tends to generate unnecessary merge conflicts etc.
(We used to have that issue with the central configuration file, for
example).
So the more I look at these things, the more convinced I am that this is
not the right thing to do. These things should *not* be in one huge file,
and I'd much much rather have the maintainership information be carried
along with the subsystem itself, or the files it contains.
In other words, it would be much better to just have per-file markers,
along with some per-subdirectory stuff or similar.
Joe just now convinced me that rather than the per-file markers, the marker
is meta-information that could just be stored in GIT, with the MAINTAINERS
file turning into something generated.
git info --maintainer and such (for many possible kinds of --flags) would
throw out the information.
Rene.
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