[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add more fields based on the linux kernel MAINTAINERs

[Michael Niedermayer]

Text was stolen from the linux kernel
This is thus identical to the kernel just a different more compact format.
I am very happy also to switch the file entirely to the format of the linux kernel maintainer list
if people prefer

This allows tracking the status of each sub system, if it needs new blood or not

It allows people to specify a separate webpage / document describing the subsystem
It allows people to ask for bug reports to be mailed to them instead of just
sent to trac.
It allows listing things like gitlab or github or anything else where to
submit patches. This could be used both for testing new patch submission systems
as well as permanently honoring the preferance of the developers maintaining a
subsystem.
It allows listing a separate tree where development happens, and against which
thus patches should be done.

Overall this gives us/the people many more options on how to maintain their stuff

Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michael at niedermayer.cc>
---
 MAINTAINERS | 18 +++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 6ce8bc86393..44efd9bc00a 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -6,10 +6,26 @@ FFmpeg code.
 
 Please try to keep entries where you are the maintainer up to date!
 
-Names in () mean that the maintainer currently has no time to maintain the code.
+*Status*, one of the following:
+[X] Old code. Something tagged obsolete generally means it has been replaced by a better system and you should be using that.
+[0] No current maintainer [but maybe you could take the role as you write your new code].
+[1] It has a maintainer but they don't have time to do much other than throw the odd patch in.
+[2] Someone actually looks after it.
+
 A (CC <address>) after the name means that the maintainer prefers to be CC-ed on
 patches and related discussions.
 
+(L <address>) *Mailing list* that is relevant to this area
+(W <aadress>) *Web-page* with status/info
+(B <address>) URI for where to file *bugs*. A web-page with detailed bug
+              filing info, a direct bug tracker link, or a mailto: URI.
+(P <address>) *Subsystem Profile* document for more details submitting
+              patches to the given subsystem. This is either an in-tree file,
+              or a URI. See Documentation/maintainer/maintainer-entry-profile.rst
+              for details.
+(T <address>) *SCM* tree type and location.
+              Type is one of: git, hg, quilt, stgit, topgit
+
 
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