Re: [PATCH 0/5] Add some missing Documentation/*/00-INDEX files

[Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>]

Rob Landley wrote:
> On Sunday 12 August 2007 12:34:30 pm Stefan Richter wrote:
>> Or use the first line of each text file to describe what the file is about.
...
> This heuristic seems to need about as much cleanup as just fixing 00-INDEX.txt 
> in all the directories.

I didn't think of heuristics but rather of a style guideline.  Maybe
prepend this metadata line with "Subject: " or so to distinguish it from
data.

What's the difference to 00-INDEX?  It's inline.  Hence,
  - as soon as a majority of files have that header, authors of new
    files will start to provide that header automatically.  Or am I too
    optimistic?
  - it's a little bit faster to create these headers than to add them
    to 00-INDEX:  Just move the existing title to the top.

There could also be "From: " and/or "Cc: " headers for authorship and
maintainership metadata.  (Of course maintainership metadata could also
go into extra files like 00-INDEX or MAINTAINERS.  Authorship metadata
of more recent documentation files is actually available in the source
control system.)

>> And BTW, if authors insist on "Last Updated:", make it a header rather
>> than a footer.  Increases the chance that submitters remember to update it.
> 
> Why not just use the source control system to review the actual revision 
> history of the file?

Just to clarify:  I'm *not* one of those who want the date in there.
-- 
Stefan Richter
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