Am 16.04.2012 23:24, schrieb Peter Maydell: > On 16 April 2012 18:42, Anthony Liguori <anth...@codemonkey.ws> wrote: >> On 04/16/2012 12:17 PM, Peter Maydell wrote: >>> Here's my stab at it: >>> Maintained: Someone actually looks after it. The maintainer >>> will have a git subtree for this area and patches >>> are expected to go through it. Bug reports will >>> generally be investigated. >> >> * For something to be marked Maintained, there must be a person on M: and >> there must be a git tree for the subsystem. > > Do you mean "there must be a git tree" or "there must be a git tree > listed under T: for this area" ? We have I think several subsystems > where things do come in via pullreq for a submaintainer tree but that > tree isn't officially public except in as much as the branch name > for the pullreq is always the same... > > I don't particularly object to providing a T: line for > target-arm.next/arm-devs.next, but I'm not sure it's particularly useful, > since we don't have the same tendency the kernel does to having subtrees > which can diverge significantly because of large amounts of change waiting > for a merge window. I wouldn't expect people to base arm patches against > arm-devs.next rather than master, for instance. (Maybe I should??)
I'm kind of expecting you to, during the Hard Freeze and in case of acceptable patches not for 1.1 during the Soft Freeze. Which is also my problems towards T:, most maintainers don't have trees dedicated to the subsystem but their personal tree with multiple branches. For example, the branch you'd whitelist for pulling ppc from is ppc-for-upstream, whereas contributors should base patches on either ppc-next or (guessing) ppc-1.1. In Peter's case there's separate branches for arm-devs and targer-arm. Officially the branch name is not part of the documented syntax but IMO it's useful for users reading MAINTAINERS. Whereas Anthony seems to be suggesting using MAINTAINERS as a tool for committers, of which currently only two actively handle PULLs. Andreas -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer; HRB 16746 AG Nürnberg
