Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: convert to JSON

[Willian Rampazzo]

On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 2:31 AM Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 13/05/21 23:02, Willian Rampazzo wrote:
> > I think I understand why you brought this thread back now. Finding a way
> > to correlate maintainers and tags is, indeed, a nice feature that can
> > help with your idea about correlating tags and maintainers to use on tests.
>
> --verbose? :)

The main idea is here:
https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg799981.html

Tl;dr, Philippe had this idea about correlating tests and maintainers
with tags one or two months ago and we were discussing what was
missing on the Avocado side and what we could do on the QEMU side to
make things work.

One of the points was how to record a tag of interest of a maintainer.
A new field to the MAINTAINERS file is one solution.

This patch about converting the MAINTAINERS file to JSON would make
things easier, as Avocado is adding a new --json option to the 'list'
command in this next release which will help to extract tags from
tests in a machine-readable way, but, as I said, moving the
MAINTAINERS file to json would be painful to edit in the future, so I
think a way to convert the current file to json solves our needs.

>
> Paolo
>