Re: [PATCH 01/24] MAINTAINERS: Document new "Q:" patchwork queue type

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

Joe Perches wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 19:34 +0100, Stefan Richter wrote:
>> MAINTAINERS' MIPS entry links to http://www.linux-mips.org/
>> which in turn points MIPS platform developers to
>> http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/.  So that's already been taken care of.
> 
> www.google.com gives an easy interface to search for links.
> How about we remove all other links in kernel sources?

www.google.com is a rather unreliable tool to obtain patch submission
addresses.  Hence the MAINTAINERS database.  This database is especially
useful to first-timers and to those who submit patches across the tree
or to subsystems with which they normally don't work with.

Patchwork listings OTOH are more interesting to those who work with
particular subsystems on a more regular basis.  Hence there is lesser
need to have the same kind of database for them as for the patch
submission addresses.

Nevertheless, rather exhaustive and always up-to-date listings of
patchwork links already exist at http://patchwork.kernel.org/ and
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/.  As was pointed out, one or another
subsystem may have a patchwork tracker on another site, but this alone
is not a reason to add and _maintain_ a huge list of patchwork links in
the MAINTAINERS file.

Your proposal to add those links into MAINTAINERS does not duplicate
Google, it duplicates the entry pages of http://patchwork.kernel.org/
and http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/.

And again, the W: entries in MAINTAINERS are an effective way to have
auxiliary information accessible from MAINTAINERS --- indirectly, but
tailored to the needs of each subsystem group, with the possibility to
add arbitrary depth of information, and potentially more up-to-date than
MAINTAINERS.
-- 
Stefan Richter
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