[U-Boot] [RFC] [PATCH 5/5] MAINTAINERS: refactor file for easier processing

[Albert ARIBAUD]

Hi Otavio,

On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 17:51:27 -0300, Otavio Salvador
<otavio at ossystems.com.br> wrote:

> Hello Albert,
> 
> First I'd like to say  I do like this change and it can improve a lot
> how tools can make "The Right Thing" automatically (here patman comes
> to my head).

Mailing maintainers is the first use I had in mind, actually, and
patman could indeed do this and benefit from a scriptable way of
finding a board's maintainer(s). But I'm sure other uses will crop up
once the file is there.

> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Albert ARIBAUD
> <albert.u.boot at aribaud.net> wrote:
> > +# Note: list sorted by architecture, name, status and maintainer e-mail        #
> > +# To keep the list sorted and formatted, you can use the following vi   #
> > +# commands, each time placing the cursor on the headers line:           #
> > +#                                                                      #
> > +# :.,$s/\([^ ]*\) \+\([^ ]*\) \+\([^ ]*\) \+\(.*\)/\1:\2:\3:\4/         #
> > +# :.,$!column -s ':' -t                                                 #
> > +# :.+1,$!sort                                                           #
> > +#                                                                      #
> 
> So I miss a way of doing same sorting and format using shell script. I
> am not a 'vi' user (but an Emacs one) but I think the most generic way
> would be to provide a shell line, or script, for it.

Understood. I'll look into adding a shell (bash, unless a war erupts
about this choice) script and referring to it from the file header in
addition to the vi commands. I welcome -- but will hardly be able to
test -- equivalent emacs commands from emacs octopi :) out here.

Same could be done to boards.cfg, BTW, maybe even in a single script
for both files, so I'll probably expand the scope of this submission
to boards.cfg.

> Regards,
> 
> --
> Otavio Salvador                             O.S. Systems

Thanks for your comments!

Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.