From owner-cvs-all Wed Apr 17 0:57: 5 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wemm.org (12-232-135-171.client.attbi.com [12.232.135.171]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D98D737B404; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 00:56:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from overcee.wemm.org (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by fw.wemm.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3H7uve04600; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 00:56:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26588380F; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 00:56:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Ruslan Ermilov Cc: Robert Watson , John Baldwin , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, "David E. O'Brien" Subject: Re: cvs commit: src MAINTAINERS In-Reply-To: <20020416150320.GG92673@sunbay.com> Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 00:56:58 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20020417075658.26588380F@overcee.wemm.org> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > --X+8siUETKMkW99st > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > 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 -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message