Re: Maintainer overview

[Detlev Zundel]

Hi,

>>> I think it would be very nice if we had such a list of
>>> packages/maintainers -- that was up-to-date.
>>
>> We have something in admin/MAINTAINERS.
>
> It's a starting point.

Just as a hint - the Linux kernel has a pretty good grasp on this topic
with the MAINTAINERS[1] file.  There's a script alongside it[2] which
can find maintainers even for a presented patch.  That helps _a lot_ to
automatically find the responsible people.

Of course in Emacs we could integrate that better, but comparable
functionality would be nice to have ;)

Cheers
  Detlev

[1] 
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=blob;f=MAINTAINERS
[2] 
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=blob;f=scripts/get_maintainer.pl

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