Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] scripts/get_maintainer.pl: allow "odd fixes"

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 09:45:13AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 10/22/2014 09:22 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > Actually, it does not ignore that.
> > What it does it list status as "odd fixer".
> > 
> > So this boils down to the fact that we use
> > "odd fixer" incorrectly.
> > 
> > I will apply this for now but maybe we should
> > change MAINTAINERS switching all "Odd fixes" to
> > "Maintained" and then revert this patch.
> > 
> > Thoughts?
> 
> To me "odd fixes" means I may help shepherding your patches into the
> tree, but I would rather revert a buggy patch than fix it.

OK but this is not what MAINTAINERS says:


           Odd Fixes:   It has a maintainer but they don't have time to do
                        much other than throw the odd patch in. See below.


I don't know what "See below" refers to.
But it does seem to imply maintainers don't have time to
review patches, so at some level, enabling fallback in
this case seems to make sense.



> they're trivial or egregious, I would not spend much time on bug
> reports.  It just sets expectations right.
> 
> Paolo