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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src MAINTAINERS
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It would be nice if MAINTAINERS was sorted in some manner I comprehended.
:-)  Likewise, it would be nice to constrain the set of entries in the
"notes" column to a fairly standard set, and call it "constraints", with
notes being used for additional commentary.  There would also be the
temptation to make "subsystem" be more structured -- perhaps a
path/file/set/... of some kind, which might work in many cases.  Vis.

src/usr.sbin/mergemaster	dougb	prefer-preapprove
src/contrib/binutils		obrien	preapprove
src/contrib/gcc			obrien	preapprove
src/sys/dev/ata			sos	prefer-preapprove
src/sys/dev/ahc			gibbs	prefer-preapprove
...

(recognizing that some parts of the system live in many directories, ...)

This would make it far easier to take a file and determine if it has
a maintainer.

On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, John Baldwin wrote:

> 
> On 15-Apr-2002 Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 02:28:06AM -0700, David E. O'Brien wrote:
> >> obrien      2002/04/15 02:28:06 PDT
> >> 
> >>   Added files:
> >>     .                    MAINTAINERS 
> >>   Log:
> >>   Implement dougb's excellent suggestion, and satisfy one desire of ru.
> >>   
> >>   Revision  Changes    Path
> >>   1.1       +9 -0      src/MAINTAINERS (new)
> >> 
> > Actually, that was me who initially proposed src/MAINTAINERS.  JFYI.  :-)
> 
> dougb proposed it a long time ago.
> 
> -- 
> 
> John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
> "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!"  -  http://www.FreeBSD.org/
> 


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