Am 16.04.2012 18:00, schrieb Anthony Liguori: > On 04/16/2012 09:31 AM, Andreas Färber wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Sparked by conversations with Anthony and the discussion on a recent >> KVM call, >> I've started overhauling our MAINTAINERS file. >> >> Patches 1-5 fix syntax issues. >> >> Patch 6 documents our orphaned stable trees, as requested by Anthony. >> >> Patch 7 drops the orphaned and by now completely busted darwin-user >> emulation. >> >> Apparently we have unwritten eligibility criteria for new maintainers >> in terms >> of qemu-devel participation and patch handling quality, but no formal >> mechanism >> to handle replacing lost maintainers. >> >> The current practice has become for Anthony to expect people listed in a >> MAINTAINERS section with S: Maintained to handle patches in that area >> themselves >> and to supply a [PULL] request to get those changes into qemu.git. >> This has the downside that patches falling into an area, where a >> maintainer >> is listed but not responding, simply bitrot on the list. > > I think we ought to aggressively downgrade subsystems if this is really > a problem. Unfortunately, it's hard to judge whether this is a problem > until someone complains about a specific subsystem. > >> Patches 8-11 therefore propose to upgrade some actively maintained >> sections >> to Maintained to formalize the Maintained vs. Odd Fixes semantics: > >> Maintained means PULLs from maintainer expected. > > Yes. More specifically, if something is Maintained, I would expect the > patch to always come in through that specific tree. > >> Odd Fixes means Reviewed-by/Acked-by or committer's gut feeling is >> sufficient. > > Yes. Odd Fixes and below means the patch is "fair game" but that the > listed M: probably ought to at least be consulted.
The current status descriptions seem to be a copy from Linux. Could you address Kevin's comment by proposing a change to the descriptions in our copy? Andreas -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer; HRB 16746 AG Nürnberg