Re: [Ksummit-2010-discuss] [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add U: for URL oftodo list, add RCU todo list

[Alan Cox]

> If I just downloaded a big tar ball and started trolling randomly
> through the source how am I going to know what the MAINTAINERS file is?

Probably because you started with Documentation/* which explains it in
SubmittingPatches for one ?

> I just think that hoping a newbie is going to naturally know MAINTAINERS
> isn't the best.

If they can't find the MAINTAINERS file in the top level directory, and
haven't read SubmittingPatches either then maybe that's not a complete
disaster at that point ?
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