One of the issues for contacting each MAINTAINER is that this information
is out-of-line from the actual kernel tree. The other is that the
description of what a maintainer is actually controlling is somewhat
vague.
How about the following:
- each directory has a MAINTAINERS file which lists parties with a
vested interest in files in that directory (format is mostly the
same as current)
- subdirectories which don't have a MAINTAINERS file use the MAINTAINERS
file of the parent (or grandparent) directory
- each maintainer entry explicitly lists each file/directory that this
person is interested in, maybe "F: {file | directory} ...".
I'm sure Eric can come up with a simple program to parse the MAINTAINER
file/tree. If the program takes a kernel-tree relative filename and
spit out the name/email of the relevant maintainer (subsystem and port
specific mailing lists should also be included), that would make the
job of finding out who to send patches to a whole lot easier.
My one gripe about the MAINTAINERS file is that it still lists Remy
Card as EXT2 maintainer, so we would probably need to do a find on
the whole kernel tree, email each address a list of files that they
"maintain" and wait until they complain, agree, or time out. Once
the database is up-to-date, it simplifies the job of keeping maintainers
(and other interested parties) in the loop.
Cheers, Andreas
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