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Date:      Wed, 2 Jun 2021 00:58:50 -0500
From:      Pedro Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>, Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Jessica Clarke <jrtc27@freebsd.org>, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, dev-commits-src-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-src-main@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: git: 5a20c351ea45 - main - [skip ci] add a CODEOWNERS file
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On 01/06/2021 01:56, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 01:50:16PM -0600, Alan Somers wrote:
>> On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 1:39 PM Jessica Clarke wrote:
>>> ...
>>>
>>> A hypothetical .gitlab/CODEOWNERS would be checked in as a generated
>>> file, if that was unclear. Otherwise I'm not sure I understand your
>>> first point?
>> There's no need to generate anything.  Both github and gitlab support a
>> CODEOWNERS file in the project's root.  Let's just move it there.  We can
>> delete the old MAINTAINERS, too, once all of its entries have been
>> converted.
> Why delete *our* correctly named MAINTAINERS?  Tomorrow GH or GL could
> decide that "pwning" something bears unnecessary and potentially offending
> connotations and break the scheme.
I would argue that the list of MAINTAINERS file has basically nothing to 
do with building FreeBSD so it is currently misplaced.
> They want CODEOWNERS now?  Fine, all it takes is a simple script to parse
> MAINTAINERS and generate CODEOWNERS file they want.  Once/if this changes,
> we'd easily adapt.

CODEOWNERS became the de-facto standard, there's nothing special about 
MAINTAINERS that justifies the need for a script. Do we really need a 
bikeshed to determine the name of a file?

Pedro.




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