On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 03:20:49PM +0100, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
Dear Daniel Schwierzeck,
please do not full-quote. Thanks.
In message CACUy__Uc8-xDMRiJm7SM1UfF_hVAdHKN9_MZC5FV0D=zDrAPeA@mail.gmail.com you wrote:
maybe we should import get_maintainers.pl from kernel and readd MAINTAINERS in the according format. So we could easily maintain infos about board maintainers, custodians, custodian trees and maintaining status per arch, CPU, SOC, drivers and boards in one place. Currently that is not possible because one has to look into different sources (boards.cfg, README's, U-Boot Wiki, git history, source file) to get those infos.
We have just created such a single point of information (boards.cfg), and now we're ripping it apart again :-(
What Daniel said is right, we don't have a single point today, we have boards.cfg, wiki and other stuff. Being able to leverage get_maintainers.pl would be nice, even if it's a bit of a pain that we just got things into boards.cfg. On the other hand, it's good that we've just spent some time sorting and checking the information and it's a regex'able problem to go from boards.cfg to MAINTAINERS.