Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: convert to JSON

[Willian Rampazzo]

FYI, I had to setup Thunderbird to reply to you because Gmail web 
interface was crashing when I was trying to expand the e-mail to delete 
the code. So, as Peter mentioned, a nice April fools' joke.


On 5/13/21 3:32 PM, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> Cc'ing John/Willian/Wainer

I think I understand why you brought this thread back now. Finding a way 
to correlate maintainers and tags is, indeed, a nice feature that can 
help with your idea about correlating tags and maintainers to use on tests.

The problem I see is that JSON is a good machine-readable file. It is a 
pain to edit it manually. So, despite the April fools' joke, my 
suggestion would be to create the JSON or any other machine-readable 
file from the MAINTAINERS file using a script.

> On 4/1/19 1:29 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > JSON is already in wide use within QEMU for QMP and QAPI, enable
> > wider usage of MAINTAINERS by applying a well-defined machine-readable
> > format.
> >
> > Converting scripts/getmaintainers.pl is left for next year.

Year-base contribution!