Re: [Qemu-devel] Unclear committer situation

[malc]

On Wed, 2 Dec 2009, Aurelien Jarno wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 12:47:36PM +0100, 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.
> >
> > So could we please assign a committer for every subsystem around? Even  
> > if the committer doesn't know the architecture inside out, it's still  
> > valuable to have soneone feel responsible at all. Committer and  
> > maintainer also don't have to be the same person. I'll gladly maintain  
> > S390 without having commit rights - as long as I have someone to CC and 
> > know the patches will get merged.
> >
> 
> I also try to follow the ppc architecture, though less than mips and
> also depending on my free time. I know that Blue Swirl and Malc also
> care about it.

Just to clarify esp. taking into consideration first paragraph of 
Alexander's message, i do not care one bit about PPC target (not
until Alexander does something magical with PPC64 and i can continue
trying to resolve an old Linux's hard lockup issue). I do care about
PPC the host though.

> 
> It's not impossible that I miss patches given the current patches rate
> on the mailing list, so don't hesitate to Cc: me. On the other hand, I
> don't really feel comfortable with KVM related patches, I would prefer
> to see them committed by Anthony.
> 
> 

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