Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 00:56:58 -0700 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src MAINTAINERS Message-ID: <20020417075658.26588380F@overcee.wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <20020416150320.GG92673@sunbay.com>
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Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
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> On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 09:01:26AM -0400, Robert Watson wrote:
> > 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.
> >=20
> > 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
> > ...
> >=20
> > (recognizing that some parts of the system live in many directories, ...)
> >=20
> > This would make it far easier to take a file and determine if it has
> > a maintainer.
> >=20
> "src/" prefix should be dropped.
> Paths should end up in "/".
> File should have a fixed number of fields.
> Lines starting with # can be treated as comments.
>
> Then I can easily add the print-maintainer target to bsd.obj.mk.
How do we add sys/kern/{file1.c,file2.c} ?
This might work for userland, but keep it away from the kernel. This is
just plain bogus when there are many shared directories there.
Cheers,
-Peter
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