On 31 May 2021, at 20:16, Warner Losh <i...@bsdimp.com> wrote: > > > > On Mon, May 31, 2021, 1:11 PM Ed Maste <ema...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Mon, 31 May 2021 at 11:51, Alan Somers <asom...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > >> > >> I think this file isn't the right place for (another copy of) this > >> text; perhaps the CODEOWNERS file should just reference the top-level > >> MAINTAINERS? > > > > Except that CODEOWNERS is in a format that tools know how to parse. If > > anything, MAINTAINERS should be a symlink to CODEOWNERS. > > At least the file's location and user IDs suggest that it is specific > to GitHub; in any case I don't really care which one points to which. > I hope we can agree though that we don't really want two different > files representing code ownership in different ways that both > independently refer to a third mechanism for recording code ownership > that's external to the source tree? > > It also works on gitlab, FWIW. The format is standard. Bummer we can't > generate it based on where it is published…
We could conceivably have a CODEOWNERS.master from which the others can be generated via `make codeowners` whenever someone edits it. Whether that’s worth the hassle of implementing though for a file that shouldn’t regularly be changing is unclear. Jess _______________________________________________ dev-commits-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/dev-commits-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "dev-commits-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
