Re: [RFC] MAINTAINERS service, was: Re: alphabetic ordering of MAINTAINERS

[Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>]

Uwe Kleine-König <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@digi.com> writes:

> Why not make that a script that parses MAINTAINERS and lives in scripts/
> and that can be used as --cc-cmd to git-send-email?  Then no service
> needs to be maintained, you don't get the observers functionality
> though.  (But that's what mailing lists are good for.)
>
> Of course MAINTAINERS needs to be modified to have the path specifiers.

Because then:
- the action is not effective immediately but sometimes after few
  months, not counting people still working with 2.6.12 or so.
- IMHO adding Cc: patch-service is a bit easier than using a script
- I think the "observers" thing is worth the effort. Now I only see
  changes to certain areas I'm interested in when they are accepted
  upstream.
- maintaining the script is probably more work than maintaining the
  database :-)

And with a service you can:
- maintain a patch archive
- be sure nobody tries to be "creative"
- perhaps other things I haven't thought about.
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa