Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: list myself as maintainer for various Arm boards

[Alex Bennée]

Alistair Francis <address@hidden> writes:

> On 14/11/2018 3:12 am, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> On 13 November 2018 at 20:10, Alistair Francis <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> These two and the Xilinx boards seem a little out of place in this
>>> patch. I agree they probably aren't maintained as well as they should
>>> be, but the patch talks about orphaned boards and these four all have
>>> active QEMU maintainers listed.
>>
>> Yeah, I was planning to improve the commit message,
>> something along the lines of an extra para:
>>
>> "The Xilinx boards are maintained, but patches to
>> them go via the target-arm tree, so add myself as a
>> maintainer there too."
>>
>> Really this is because we're overloading "maintainer"
>> to mean both "this person cares about and is the
>> primary reviewer and yes/no decision for them" and
>> also "this person is responsible for getting the
>> patches into the tree". Perhaps we should instead
>> define a new letter tag for the latter ?
>
> What about adding a "P:" tag for pull request sender?

Don't all pull requests generally come from the relevant T: (tree)? We
could either extend that or just state the first M: in the list is the
person who owns the relevant tree.

>
> Alistair
>
>>
>> thanks
>> -- PMM
>>


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Alex Bennée