Hi George, On 21/04/16 17:03, George Dunlap wrote:
Clarify the meaning of nested maintainership.Signed-off-by: George Dunlap <george.dun...@citrix.com> --- We had a discussion about the meaning of nested maintainership at the recent Xen Hackathon. The notes of that meeting can be found on this list [1]. No decision is official until discussed on this list, so consider this patch the official proposal for this change, and object or ask for clarification accordingly. [1] marc.info/?i=<edb48431-c3ef-4461-b2d2-3ab95ea6c...@gmail.com> CC: Ian Jackson <ian.jack...@eu.citrix.com> CC: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com> CC: Keir Fraser <k...@xen.org> CC: Tim Deegan <t...@xen.org> CC: Wei Liu <wei.l...@citrix.com> CC: Konrad Wilk <konrad.w...@oracle.com> CC: Andrew Cooper <andrew.coop...@citrix.com> CC: Lars Kurth <lars.ku...@citrix.com> --- MAINTAINERS | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+) diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index a34685d..be901d5 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -94,6 +94,40 @@ Descriptions of section entries: printk, pr_info or pr_err One regex pattern per line. Multiple K: lines acceptable. + +The meaning of nesting: + +Many maintanership areas are "nested": for example, there are entries
NIT: s/maintanership/maintainership/
+for xen/arch/x86 as well as xen/arch/x86/mm, and even +xen/arch/x86/mm/shadow; and there is a section at the end called "THE +REST" which lists all committers, as well as a few more. The meaning +of nesting is that: + +1. Under normal circumstances, the Ack of the most specific maintaner
NIT: s/maintaner/maintainer/ Regards, -- Julien Grall _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
