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[David Kowis <dkowis AT shlrm.org>]

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Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> there's a quite old bug[1] about getting MAINTAINER files in a state
> that we can have per-spell maintainer declarations again.
> The basic idea is that we would have a hierarchy of MAINTAINER files,
> looked up like this:
> - if there's a MAINTAINER file in $grimoire/$section/$spell, use that
> - otherwise, use $grimoire/$section/MAINTAINER if it exists
> - use $grimoire/MAINTAINER
> 
> The file itself would just have a list of developers who maintain that
> grimoire/section/spell, with one developer per line in the format
> "full name <the.mail AT domain.org>"
> 
> We currently have a few MAINTAINER files, like in the mail section, that
> include spell names + maintainers. The advantage of the above scheme is
> that it can be looked up automatically very easily.
> 
> If no one has major objections, I'd like to get that format standardized
> (and implemented in gaze maintainer).
> 
> [1] http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9010
Sounds good to me.

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