On 11/5/21 21:05, Daniel Henrique Barboza wrote: > On 11/5/21 16:16, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: >> Hi Daniel, >> >> On 11/5/21 10:48, Daniel Henrique Barboza wrote: >>> On 11/5/21 00:46, David Gibson wrote: >>>> As our day jobs and interests have moved onto other things, Greg and I >>>> have >>>> been struggling to keep on top of maintainership of target/ppc and >>>> associated pieces like the pseries and powernv machine types, with >>>> their >>>> platform specific devices. >>>> >>>> We've therefore discussed and plan to transfer maintainership to >>>> Cédric Le >>>> Goater (primary) and Daniel Henrique Barboza (backup). Cédric and >>>> Daniel >>>> have been actively contributing to the area for some time, and they're >>>> supported in this by their current employer, IBM, who has an obvious >>>> interest in the platform. >>> >>> Thank you and Greg and Red Hat for all the years of service supporting >>> qemu-ppc in the community. IBM will shoulder this responsibility now. >> >> In term of the MAINTAINERS file: >> >> S: Status, one of the following: >> Supported: Someone is actually paid to look after this. >> Maintained: Someone actually looks after it. >> >> The PPC entries have a 'Maintained' status. You say "IBM will shoulder >> this responsibility", does that mean the entries will be 'Supported' >> as in "someone paid to look after them"? > > Yes. It's appropriate to change the PPC entries of this patch to > "Supported" > now.
This is a great news :) >> I wonder because both Cédric and you have some commits with an IBM >> email, but both are registering a non-IBM email as contact. I don't >> mind the email technical detail, but I am curious about the status >> and expectations. > > I had problems using IBM corporate email with mailing lists in the past, > and started using this gmail account instead. I believe Cedric has a > similar sob story. > > FWIW the contrib/gitdm/group-map-ibm file has both our emails there to > indicate that we're IBM contributors. OK this is how I understood it first then. Thanks for the clarification. Regards, Phil.
