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From: Stefan Richter on 14 Jan 2010 13:40
Joe Perches wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 19:04 +0100, Stefan Richter wrote:
>> All lists which do use patchwork are listed on patchwork.kernel.org and
>> patchwork.ozlabs.org.
>
> Not so:
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/1/14/260

You could add that to the just proposed link list in HOWTO.

However, MAINTAINERS' MIPS entry links to http://www.linux-mips.org/
which in turn points MIPS platform developers to
http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/. So that's already been taken care of.
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From: Joe Perches on 14 Jan 2010 13:50
On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 19:34 +0100, Stefan Richter wrote:
> MAINTAINERS' MIPS entry links to http://www.linux-mips.org/
> which in turn points MIPS platform developers to
> http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/. So that's already been taken care of.

www.google.com gives an easy interface to search for links.
How about we remove all other links in kernel sources?

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From: Alan Cox on 14 Jan 2010 14:10
> www.google.com gives an easy interface to search for links.
> How about we remove all other links in kernel sources?

What happens when google is down, someone googlebombs the reference you
want, or if you are in China and Google decide to pull out ?
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From: Stefan Richter on 14 Jan 2010 14:10
Joe Perches wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 19:34 +0100, Stefan Richter wrote:
>> MAINTAINERS' MIPS entry links to http://www.linux-mips.org/
>> which in turn points MIPS platform developers to
>> http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/. So that's already been taken care of.
>
> www.google.com gives an easy interface to search for links.
> How about we remove all other links in kernel sources?

www.google.com is a rather unreliable tool to obtain patch submission
addresses. Hence the MAINTAINERS database. This database is especially
useful to first-timers and to those who submit patches across the tree
or to subsystems with which they normally don't work with.

Patchwork listings OTOH are more interesting to those who work with
particular subsystems on a more regular basis. Hence there is lesser
need to have the same kind of database for them as for the patch
submission addresses.

Nevertheless, rather exhaustive and always up-to-date listings of
patchwork links already exist at http://patchwork.kernel.org/ and
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/. As was pointed out, one or another
subsystem may have a patchwork tracker on another site, but this alone
is not a reason to add and _maintain_ a huge list of patchwork links in
the MAINTAINERS file.

Your proposal to add those links into MAINTAINERS does not duplicate
Google, it duplicates the entry pages of http://patchwork.kernel.org/
and http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/.

And again, the W: entries in MAINTAINERS are an effective way to have
auxiliary information accessible from MAINTAINERS --- indirectly, but
tailored to the needs of each subsystem group, with the possibility to
add arbitrary depth of information, and potentially more up-to-date than
MAINTAINERS.
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From: Joe Perches on 14 Jan 2010 14:20
On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 19:05 +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > www.google.com gives an easy interface to search for links.
> > How about we remove all other links in kernel sources?
>
> What happens when google is down, someone googlebombs the reference you
> want, or if you are in China and Google decide to pull out ?

Exactly my point.

Removing links is not a good idea.
Redundancy is not a bad idea.
Asking people to perform unnecessary searches
is not a good idea.

When Stefan proposed a good patch to HOWTO, he failed
to notice the section immediately above his modification
includes git tree links which are also duplicated in
MAINTAINERS. The duplication is fairly cost-free.

cheers, Joe


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