Re: [Qemu-devel] Unclear committer situation

[Alexander Graf]

On 01.12.2009, at 19:51, Anthony Liguori wrote:

> Alexander Graf wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Could someone with commit rights please stand up to feel responsible for PPC?
>> 
>> Usually, when I send a patch to qemu-devel, I know who to address to 
>> increase chances of it getting committed. For kvm/vnc/block I just CC 
>> Anthony, for Audio I just CC malc, etc.
>> 
>> There are some subsystems where nobody feels responsible though, apparently 
>> hoping 'someone else' will tske on it. Well, turns out it doesn't work that 
>> way.
> 
> The general problem is that someone has to step up to maintain these 
> subsystems.  For some of them, there just isn't really a lot of interest.

It sounds like we're drawing different lines.

Maintainership for a subsystem is completely different from "feeling 
responsible for patches". You can be the person checking stuff in without 
knowing anything about the subsystem. If it breaks, have the community fix it. 
If it stays broken and nobody cares, remove the subsystem.

Alex