Hi, Greg KH wrote: > No, not at all. Look at the kernel package, the bugzilla owners of > kernel bugs, and who is doing all the work and "ownership" here.
So your argument is that the people who are doing the maintainership of the kernel must sign off on patches to the kernel. That seems perfectly reasonable. What people are taking issue with is that (a) being an employee of Intel is not sufficient to make you a MeeGo kernel maintainer and (b) in theory, at least, being an employee of Intel is not required to be a MeeGo kernel maintainer either. Thus, requiring a signoff by "someone with an intel.com or linux.intel.com email address" does not fulfill your reasonable expectation that a package maintainer sign off on patches. To be concrete for a second, how many people are we talking about? If there are 5 or 6 people who can sign off on patches, then list them - and be done with it. They may all be Intel people to begin with, but that doesn't prevent someone from Nokia, Novell or an independent from stepping up to the plate and earning maintainership status (and as you say, you agree that this *should* be the case, but isn't right now - so why not set up processes to reflect both what is, *and* what should be?) Cheers, Dave. -- maemo.org docsmaster Email: [email protected] Jabber: [email protected] _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
