Re: [RFC PATCH v3] docs-rst: user: add MAINTAINERS

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Fri, 2016-09-23 at 12:07 -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> So, let's use an unusual approach: manually convert the
> text at the MAINTAINERS file head, adding it at a new
> Documentation/user/MAINTAINERS.rst, and include, as a code
> block, the rest of MAINTAINERS contents, with only the
> contents of the maintainers entries.
> 
> There's a side effect of this approach: now, if the
> explanation text at the MAINTAINERS file is touched, it should be
> modified also at the Documentation/user/MAINTAINERS.rst file.
> Yet, as the number of changes there are small, this
> should be manageable.

couldn't this be a generated file from some awk script instead
of being duplicated content with a plea to be kept in sync?

> diff --git a/Documentation/user/MAINTAINERS.rst b/Documentation/user/MAINTAINERS.rst
> new file mode 100644

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