Proposal: add MAINTAINERS to git

[Siddhesh Poyarekar]

On Thursday 11 May 2017 10:07 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> That is a touchy subject.
> 
> The steward may wish to do more work but can't.
> 
> When do you ask them to withdraw their name from the list of stewards?
> 
> One hopes this is done voluntarily when the steward acknowledges they
> aren't working on the project.
> 
> I also think that keeping the list clear makes it easy to see if we need
> _new_ stewards to step up for the project.

I like the Linux kernel way of working in this case, where the
MAINTAINERS list is essentially of historical value and more stress is
laid on who changed the code most in that specific module.  Something
like the checkpatch script would work nicely there.

Siddhesh