Re: [PATCH] [1/2many] - FInd the maintainer(s) for a patch - scripts/get_maintainer.pl

Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]> writes:

> The maintainer info should be in the source file itself!

Nope, it should be outside of the (downloadable) tarball, because
once someone get a tarball you can't update the data in it.
This is fine WRT source (which is static given a version) but
doesn't work for fast-changing data.
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa
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