doc: add maintainers section to the contributors guide

Add a maintainers section to the contributors guide to have a low tech
location to check/link to the current maintainers. This file is included
dynamically from the MAINTAINERS file in the root directory of the DPDK
source when the docs are built. This also allows us to link to the file
from other sections of the docs.

Signed-off-by: Ciara Power <ciara.power@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>

diff --git a/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst b/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst
index 3c2f310ec24c3fb0b057843f7d6b2370eb4c557e..2287835f910d3eb8e4f486c91af027c0357140ab 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst
@@ -551,3 +551,12 @@ patch accepted. The general cycle for patch review and acceptance is:
      than rework of the original.
    * Trivial patches may be merged sooner than described above at the tree committer's
      discretion.
+
+DPDK Maintainers
+----------------
+
+The following are the DPDK maintainers as listed in the ``MAINTAINERS`` file
+in the DPDK root directory.
+
+.. literalinclude:: ../../../MAINTAINERS
+   :lines: 3-