doc/developer: Add a policy item about updating the MAINTAINERs file

Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
12 years ago · a6388616e8
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--- a/doc/developer.texi
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@ -386,6 +386,12 @@ If it is a bug, the bug has to be fixed. If it is not, the code should
 be changed to not generate a warning unless that causes a slowdown
 or obfuscates the code.

+@item
+Make sure that no parts of the codebase that you maintain are missing from the
+@file{MAINTAINERS} file. If something that you want to maintain is missing add it with
+your name after it.
+If at some point you no longer want to maintain some code, then please help
+finding a new maintainer and also don't forget updating the @file{MAINTAINERS} file.
@end enumerate

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