Re: [linux-pm] Re: Storing Maintainers info around the kernel tree

2007-08-16 Thread Stefan Richter
Rene Herman wrote: > On 08/17/2007 03:58 AM, Alan Stern wrote: > >> On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, Rene Herman wrote: >> >>> On 08/16/2007 11:39 PM, Stefan Richter wrote: Rene Herman wrote: > > I personally don't think there's a whole lot wrong with more and > more expecting people who submit

Re: [linux-pm] Re: Storing Maintainers info around the kernel tree

2007-08-16 Thread Rene Herman
On 08/17/2007 03:58 AM, Alan Stern wrote: On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, Rene Herman wrote: On 08/16/2007 11:39 PM, Stefan Richter wrote: Rene Herman wrote: I personally don't think there's a whole lot wrong with more and more expecting people who submit patches (for whom this automation is intende

Re: [linux-pm] Re: Storing Maintainers info around the kernel tree

2007-08-16 Thread Alan Stern
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, Rene Herman wrote: > On 08/16/2007 11:39 PM, Stefan Richter wrote: > > Rene Herman wrote: > > >> I personally don't think there's a whole lot wrong with more and more > >> expecting people who submit patches (for whom this automation is > >> intended) to be using git. > > >

Re: [linux-pm] Re: Storing Maintainers info around the kernel tree

2007-08-16 Thread Rene Herman
On 08/16/2007 11:39 PM, Stefan Richter wrote: Rene Herman wrote: I personally don't think there's a whole lot wrong with more and more expecting people who submit patches (for whom this automation is intended) to be using git. You mean "people who frequently submit patches for various differ

Re: [linux-pm] Re: Storing Maintainers info around the kernel tree

2007-08-16 Thread Stefan Richter
Rene Herman wrote: > I personally don't think there's a whole lot wrong with more and more > expecting people who submit patches (for whom this automation is > intended) to be using git. You mean "people who frequently submit patches for various different subsystems". -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=

Re: [linux-pm] Re: Storing Maintainers info around the kernel tree

2007-08-16 Thread Rene Herman
On 08/16/2007 05:31 PM, Alan Stern wrote: Please remember that not everybody uses git. The MAINTAINERS data should be available in the kernel source itself. It may be useful to generate a MAINTAINERS file into releases yes. I must say though that "why?" would also be a question. I personally

Re: [linux-pm] Re: Storing Maintainers info around the kernel tree

2007-08-16 Thread Alan Stern
On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Rene Herman wrote: > > It would be much easier to put in the "kernel/somesubsys" directory a > > Maintainers file which has: > > It's ofcourse possible, but note that if we want this stuff to be minimally > manual, moving files around (and deleting them) then requires editi

Re: Storing Maintainers info around the kernel tree

2007-08-16 Thread Rene Herman
On 08/16/2007 03:04 PM, Kyle Moffett wrote: On Aug 16, 2007, at 07:57:23, Rene Herman wrote: category as .gitignore, which would _be_ a property. If you do this stuff in files scattered around the tree, updating and moving stuff becomes a pain -- the tool would need to go edit files. From

Storing Maintainers info around the kernel tree

2007-08-16 Thread Kyle Moffett
Merging a couple related threads here: On Aug 16, 2007, at 07:57:23, Rene Herman wrote: On 08/16/2007 01:26 PM, Salikh Zakirov wrote: Rene Herman wrote: Perhaps that immediately suggests an implementation to someone already familiar with git internals? perhaps http://www.kernel.org/pub/softwa