On 7/5/23 11:53 AM, Andrew Cooper wrote: > On 05/07/2023 5:22 pm, Shawn Anastasio wrote: >> On 7/5/23 11:09 AM, Jan Beulich wrote: >>> On 05.07.2023 17:10, Shawn Anastasio wrote: >>>> Acked-by: Shawn Anastasio <[email protected]> >>> Thanks. >> Just to clarify, as the maintainer of PPC64, would it be my >> responsibility to commit this now directly to xen/staging? Or should I >> commit it to my own tree and have someone pull it? >> >> I'm not super familiar with the project's maintainer workflow yet so any >> hints would be appreciated. > > Ah, so this is somewhere where we're quite different to Linux. > > There is one single tree, and there are a small group of people with > commit access. We're "THE REST" in the maintainers file. Jan can > commit, as can I, and several others. > > The role of committers is (technically at least) to take any patch from > the mailing list which is suitably acked, and commit it. > > So, in principle you have nothing further to do here. As this is one of > Jan's patches, I'm sure he'll include in in the next set of patches he > commits. > > It can happen that patches fall between the cracks, so it is generally > helpful for maintainers to double check and ping on IRC/email/etc if > there are patches that appear to be outstanding. > > ~Andrew
Thanks for the explanation, that makes sense. Shawn
