Re: [PATCH 0/2] Add MAINTAINERS file and clarify gui workflows

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Dec 31, 2012, 18:32 UTC
Message-ID: <7vlicedqdl.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <loom.20121231T103639-635@post.gmane.org>

Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de> writes:

Show 6 quoted lines

>> Thanks; I just realized that nothing in Documentation/ hierarchy
>> mentions these; they are only mentioned in "A Note from the
>> Maintainer" I send out every once in a while (kept in MaintNotes of
>> 'todo' branch):
>
> Wouldn't it be a good idea to put MaintNotes somewhere below ./Documentation?

Perhaps. It started as a living document that discusses the state of affairs as of the time of posting (there are mentions to "the most recent such release was ...", etc), and because I wanted to keep it that way (and also I needed somewhere to keep track of it), I deliberately kept it outside the source tree.

It is an addendum to howto-maintain-git, and what it covers overlaps with it, so it will need some clean-ups if we want to go the route you suggest.

Having said all that, I think it is still a good idea to keep the occasional "A note from he Maintainer" posting on list, and a version that needs to rever to another document after losing overlaps with howto-maintain-git will no longer will be suitable source for it, so...