On Sat, Nov 08, 2014 at 12:49:29PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote: > On Sat, 2014-11-08 at 11:01 -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 08, 2014 at 08:37:27PM +0200, Oded Gabbay wrote: > > > CREDITS | 7 +++++++ > > > MAINTAINERS | 10 ++++++++++ > > > 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+) > > > > Given the wide variety of folks who patch CREDITS and MAINTAINERS, might > > I suggest adding CREDITS and MAINTAINERS themselves to the MAINTAINERS > > file (perhaps in the same entry as get_maintainer.pl), so that > > get_maintainer.pl does not fall back to git history for them? > > Thanks but: > > There is no MAINTAINERS/CREDITS maintainer. > > I'm not volunteering.
Oh, I thought from all your work on file patterns and other such improvements that you were the de-facto MAINTAINERS maintainer. > Maybe you? No thank you. > But maybe something like this would help: > > It has to have both an M: and an S: entry > with maintained or supported to stop get_maintainers > from doing a git history lookup. > > --- > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS > index 0662378..584fd69 100644 > --- a/MAINTAINERS > +++ b/MAINTAINERS > @@ -5881,6 +5881,12 @@ F: drivers/mailbox/ > F: include/linux/mailbox_client.h > F: include/linux/mailbox_controller.h > > +MAINTAINERS/CREDITS > +M: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > +S: Maintained > +F: MAINTAINERS > +F: CREDITS Sending something only to LKML seems likely to go un-noticed. I think we need a better solution than this. - Josh Triplett -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
