Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add qemu-devel as list for util

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 22.10.2014 um 15:03 hat Markus Armbruster geschrieben:
> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > util is used all over the place, there's
> > no one specifically that needs to be Cc'd
> > on patches touching it.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <address@hidden>
> > ---
> >  MAINTAINERS | 5 +++++
> >  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > index 206bf7e..e6ca9c3 100644
> > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > @@ -1018,3 +1018,8 @@ M: Chrysostomos Nanakos <address@hidden>
> >  M: Chrysostomos Nanakos <address@hidden>
> >  S: Maintained
> >  F: block/archipelago.c
> > +
> > +UTIL
> > +M: address@hidden
> > +S: Odd Fixes
> > +F: util/
> 
> I'm not sure we want this.  If we dfo, then it needs to be L: instead of
> M:.

I think it's better to leave unmaintained areas out of MAINTAINERS so
that their status is clear. If we want to get a real improvement here,
we need to assign a (real) maintainer. The mailing list already gets the
patches anyway, but as it happens it doesn't apply them.

Kevin