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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Add MAINTAINERS file and clarify gui workflows
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Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de> writes:

>> Thanks; I just realized that nothing in Documentation/ hierarchy
>> mentions these; they are only mentioned in "A Note from the
>> Maintainer" I send out every once in a while (kept in MaintNotes of
>> 'todo' branch):
>
> Wouldn't it be a good idea to put MaintNotes somewhere below ./Documentation?

Perhaps.  It started as a living document that discusses the state
of affairs as of the time of posting (there are mentions to "the
most recent such release was ...", etc), and because I wanted to
keep it that way (and also I needed somewhere to keep track of it),
I deliberately kept it outside the source tree.

It is an addendum to howto-maintain-git, and what it covers overlaps
with it, so it will need some clean-ups if we want to go the route
you suggest.

Having said all that, I think it is still a good idea to keep the
occasional "A note from he Maintainer" posting on list, and a
version that needs to rever to another document after losing
overlaps with howto-maintain-git will no longer will be suitable
source for it, so...