RE: [PATCH v2] MAINTAINERS: Change my email address

[zhanghailiang]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2021 6:18 PM
> To: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
> Cc: zhanghailiang <zhanghailiang@xfusion.com>; qemu-devel@nongnu.org;
> Gonglei <arei.gonglei@huawei.com>; Wen Congyang
> <wencongyang2@huawei.com>; dgilbert@redhat.com; quintela@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] MAINTAINERS: Change my email address
> 
> On 12/14/21 10:22, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 10:04:03AM +0100, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> >> On 12/14/21 08:54, Hailiang Zhang wrote:
> >>> The zhang.zhanghailiang@huawei.com email address has been stopped.
> >>> Change it to my new email address.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Hailiang Zhang <zhanghailiang@xfusion.com>
> >>> ---
> >>> hi Juan & Dave,
> >>>
> >>> Firstly, thank you for your working on maintaining the COLO framework.
> >>> I didn't have much time on it in the past days.
> >>>
> >>> I may have some time in the next days since my job has changed.
> >>>
> >>> Because of my old email being stopped, i can not use it to send this 
> >>> patch.
> >>> Please help me to merge this patch.
> >>
> >> Can we have an Ack-by from someone working at Huawei?
> >
> > Why do we need that ?
> 
> To avoid anyone impersonating Hailiang Zhang...
> 

Agreed. This check is necessary. I totally understand.

> But it doesn't have to be from the same company, as long as someone knowing
> him vouch the change. Anyhow I am not nacking this patch, I am trying to have 
> a
> safer process.
> 
> > Subsystems are not owned by companies.
> >
> > If someone moves company and wants to carry on in their existing role
> > as maintainer that is fine and doesn't need approva from their old
> > company IMHO.
> 
> I agree, this is why it is better to send that kind of change from the
> to-be-stopped email address while it is still valid.
> 

I should send this patch before my old email address stopped, but I didn't get 
permission of
Sending email in new company until now. ☹

Thanks.

> Thanks,
> 
> Phil.