[U-Boot] [RFC] [PATCH 0/5] Refactor MAINTAINERS file

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Albert,

In message <1374611299-16836-1-git-send-email-albert.u.boot at aribaud.net> you wrote:
> This patch series aims at refactoring MAINTAINERS into an easily
> processable file.

Thanks!  Much appreciated.

> There are not actually five changes as such; the first four patches
> are step-by-step cleaning so that the last patch can be created
> essentially by running an AWK script on MAINTAINERS.

Hm, I wonder if we shouldadd (back) a column providing information
about the SoC type?  When searching for - for example - maintainers
for all i.MX6 boards it's not really helpful to only have a huge list
of "ARM" boards.

OK, you can argument that we can extract this information using
"MAKEALL -l", but then we could also omit the architecture column in
the MAINTAINERS file.

Alternatively, we could drop the MAINTAINERS file and just add the
status and name/mail address columns to the boards.cfg file.  I agree
that this would become even more unreadabe, but then we'd have all
information in a single place.  [Merging MAINTAINERS into boards.cfg
could be done automatically using your last file format as input.]

What do you think?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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