On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 3:06 PM, Emil Velikov <emil.l.veli...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Rob, > > Speaking of maintainers... I have a patch somewhere that adds you as > maintainer for $linux/drivers/drm/gpu/msm/. > Guess I should send it already ;-) > > On 19 April 2016 at 22:11, Rob Clark <robdcl...@gmail.com> wrote: >> From: Rob Clark <robcl...@freedesktop.org> >> >> Copied from linux kernel, with minimal changes to script (just to >> recognize mesa src tree rather than linux kernel src tree), and slimmed >> down MAINTAINER file syntax to recognize that we don't really have >> subsystem "maintainers" in the same sense as the linux kernel (ie. no >> different mailing lists and git trees per subsystem). >> > Crazy idea: Worth mentioning the commit this based upon and tracking > all the changes in git ? This way one can leech from the kernel and > contribute back as applicable ;-) > >> The main point is to automate slapping on the correct CC's for patches >> via git's --cc-cmd feature, more than anything else. >> >> I didn't attempt to fully populate the MAINTAINERS file, by a long shot. >> The point was to just be able to test it, and get feedback if people >> like the idea. >> > Fwiw the idea sounds great imho. There is a small warning though - the > script is under the GPLv2 licence. Would that interfere with > BSD/Solaris/companies that ship mesa based binaries ? If it's a matter > of not shipping the script [in the tarball] that's great. Although > it's worth checking.
There's no point in shipping it in the tarball anyway, since it's for use with git send-email. Let's let people add themselves to the file if they want. No point in trying to populate it up front. _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
