Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 00/14] MAINTAINERS cleanups - please read

[Peter Maydell]

On 17 April 2012 09:59, Andreas Färber <address@hidden> wrote:
> Am 16.04.2012 23:24, schrieb Peter Maydell:
>> I wouldn't expect people to base arm patches against
>> arm-devs.next rather than master, for instance. (Maybe I should??)
>
> I'm kind of expecting you to, during the Hard Freeze and in case of
> acceptable patches not for 1.1 during the Soft Freeze.

Mm. Depends how much not-for-1.1 stuff arrives during soft/hardfreeze.

> Which is also my problems towards T:, most maintainers don't have trees
> dedicated to the subsystem but their personal tree with multiple
> branches. For example, the branch you'd whitelist for pulling ppc from
> is ppc-for-upstream, whereas contributors should base patches on either
> ppc-next or (guessing) ppc-1.1. In Peter's case there's separate
> branches for arm-devs and targer-arm.

I use .next vs .for-upstream as well.

> Officially the branch name is not part of the documented syntax but IMO
> it's useful for users reading MAINTAINERS.
> Whereas Anthony seems to be suggesting using MAINTAINERS as a tool for
> committers, of which currently only two actively handle PULLs.

I don't particularly mind which we do, but I do think that we
should be clear about what the semantics are and how we expect
people to use this information.

-- PMM