Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] MAINTAINERS: Add MAINTAINERS file

[Daniel Kiper]

Hi Paul,

On Mon, Jun 07, 2021 at 09:54:22PM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote:
> Dear Daniel,
>
> Am 07.06.21 um 20:07 schrieb Daniel Kiper:
> > The MAINTAINERS file provides basic information about the GRUB project
> > and its maintainers.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Alex Burmashev <alexander.burmashev@oracle.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder@google.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
> > ---
> > v2 - suggestions/fixes:
> >     - mention the MAINTAINERS file in the README file
> >       (suggested by Paul Menzel),
> >     - s/http/https/
> >       (suggested by Paul Menzel).
> > ---
> >   MAINTAINERS | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >   README      |  2 ++
> >   2 files changed, 33 insertions(+)
> >   create mode 100644 MAINTAINERS
> >
> > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 000000000..9eff2b8ab
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
> > +List of current GRUB maintainers and some basic information about the 
> > project
> > +=============================================================================
> > +
> > +Here is the list of current GRUB maintainers:
> > +  - Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com> and <dkiper@net-space.pl>,
> > +  - Alex Burmashev <alexander.burmashev@oracle.com>,
> > +  - Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko <phcoder@gmail.com>.
> > +
> > +The maintainers drive and overlook the GRUB development.
> > +
> > +The GRUB development happens on the grub-devel mailing list [1]. The latest
> > +GRUB source code is available at Savannah git repository [2].
> > +
> > +Users can ask for help on the help-grub mailing list [3].
> > +
> > +
> > +List of past GRUB maintainers and people who strongly contributed to the 
> > project
> > +================================================================================
> > +
> > +Here is the list, sorted alphabetically, of past GRUB maintainers and 
> > people who
> > +strongly contributed to the project:
> > +  - Andrei Borzenkov,
> > +  - Bryan Ford,
> > +  - Erich Stefan Boleyn,
> > +  - Gordon Matzigkeit,
> > +  - Yoshinori K. Okuji.
> > +
> > +
> > +[1] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
> > +[2] 
> > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=grub.git&view=view+git+repository
> > +[3] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
> > diff --git a/README b/README
> > index 685b01657..b1aa79723 100644
> > --- a/README
> > +++ b/README
> > @@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ See the file NEWS for a description of recent changes to 
> > GRUB 2.
> >   See the file INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install the
> >   GRUB 2 data and program files.
> > +See the file MAINTAINERS for information about the GRUB maintainers, etc.
> > +
>
> I still think, it’s a little confusing to have the information about the
> list and the source code URL in the file `MAINTAINERS`.

Yeah, I agree it is not perfect but I do not want to delay the GRUB
release any longer. We can polish it up after the release...

> >   Please visit the official web page of GRUB 2, for more information.
> >   The URL is <http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub.html>.
>
> Otherwise this looks good.

Great! Thank you for your comments.

Daniel