On 05/11/2007 05:52 PM, Takashi Iwai wrote:
Following up the recent MODULE_MAINTAINER discussion on LKML:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/4/170
that concluded with MODULE_MAINTAINER not being a good idea, here's a patch that just deletes the email addresses from the MODULE_AUTHOR tags for ALSA.
The email address is the problem I was trying to fix; with multiple current and non-current authors and maintainers who might not even be authors the address(es) available from the tag confuse the issue of whom to contact. It's moreover also information that easily outdated.
A bit more than half of the tags in the kernel don't include an email address already (the core contributors typically don't include any) and I'll submit patches removing more.
Did we get consensus about this removal action? I've seen only one follow up by Krzysztof. (I personlly don't mind to remove mail addresses, though.)
Yep, Krysztof was the only one to specifically ACK but seeing as how I asked for objections:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/27/488
I took not seeing any as more ACKs. Alan Cox is objecting a bit again though preferring the originally proposed MODULE_MAINTAINER:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/10/628
I seem unlikely to convince him but I believe it's upto specific subsystems whether or not they'll take patches removing the email adresses from the tag, ie, in the case of ALSA upto you and Jaroslav.
I do believe it actually solves a problem. In the end, all that I really care about are the ones that I specifically want to take on (which in the case of ALSA is eventually most or all of isa/, but I'm not sufficiently upto speed yet, and certainly not on the _real_ driver code as opposed to the bus glue) but in a global sense, I'd like to just see them all go.
Rene.