Re: CVS magic and important files.

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Chema Celorio wrote:

> On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 01:38, James Henstridge wrote:
>  
>
> > Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> >
> >    
> >
> > >       If you create a #{MODULE}/MAINTAINERS file, any lines
> > >       that are of the pattern "Email: foo bar" will be used to
> > >       generate a #{MODULE}-maint gnome org alias.
> > >
> > >      
> > Are these aliases still relevant?  IIRC, they were mainly used as a 
> > default owner for packages in debbugs.  When we switched over to 
> > bugzilla, we started using -maint aliases on bugzilla.gnome.org instead 
> > (which require editing of a file in the halloween module ...).  Are any 
> > projects actually making use of the other -maint aliases?
> >    
>
> I find it extremely useful and convenient to have a MAINTAINERS file in
> every module. Do we have another 'official' place to look up the
> maintainer of a CVS module?
>  
I think the MAINTAINERS files are useful.  I was commenting on the 
aliases generated from them.

James.

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