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

[Mike Rapoport]

On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Mark Brown
<broonie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 05:34:17PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
>> On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 20:23 -0400, Eric Paris wrote:
>
>> > 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?
>
>> I think that tarball trolling is pretty rare these days.
>
> My experience is that there's an awful lot of people working with
> whatever kernel has been provided by their vendor rather than getting
> kernels direct from kernel.org and they tend to only look as far as the
> tarball (or other package) they got.

People that are working with vendor provided kernels do not tend to
contribute upstream. And those who want to contribute will find what
MAINTAINERS is.

>> Any one know the statistics for kernel git traffic vs tarballs?
>
> The kernel.org traffic is going to miss people using distribution or
> other non kernel.org traffic so might be a bit misleading.
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        Mike.
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