Proposal: add MAINTAINERS to git

[Joseph Myers]

On Wed, 10 May 2017, Carlos O'Donell wrote:

> On 05/10/2017 05:57 PM, DJ Delorie wrote:
> > I propose adding a file called "MAINTAINERS" to the git source tree,
> > which only says:
> > 
> > 	See https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/MAINTAINERS
> > 
> > Rationale: other GNU projects have a top-level MAINTAINERS file, if
> > someone is used to looking for that, at least they'll find something.
>  
> Sounds good to me.
> 
> I'd like to see one or two more senior people ACK this though before
> we add such a file.
> 
> Joseph, Any opinion?

It's fine with me, but in the various GNU project checkouts I have to 
hand, only binutils-gdb and GCC have such files.  (Though most projects 
don't have large teams of either GNU-appointed maintainers or active 
developers.)

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com