Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] MAINTAINERS: Remove myself as block maintainer

[Markus Armbruster]

Fam Zheng <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, 09/25 07:00, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>> Jeff Cody <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>> > I'll not be involved in day-to-day qemu development.  Remove
>> > myself as maintainer from the remainder of the network block drivers
>> > (and vhdx), and revert them to the general block layer maintainership.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Jeff Cody <address@hidden>
>> > ---
>> >  MAINTAINERS | 14 --------------
>> >  1 file changed, 14 deletions(-)
>> >
>> > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
>> > index e93f79672f..6ef6932628 100644
>> > --- a/MAINTAINERS
>> > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
>> > @@ -1982,28 +1982,22 @@ F: block/vmdk.c
>> >  
>> >  RBD
>> >  M: Josh Durgin <address@hidden>
>> > -M: Jeff Cody <address@hidden>
>> >  L: address@hidden
>> >  S: Supported
>> >  F: block/rbd.c
>> > -T: git git://github.com/codyprime/qemu-kvm-jtc.git block
>> >  
>> >  Sheepdog
>> >  M: Hitoshi Mitake <address@hidden>
>> >  M: Liu Yuan <address@hidden>
>> > -M: Jeff Cody <address@hidden>
>> >  L: address@hidden
>> >  L: address@hidden
>> >  S: Supported
>> >  F: block/sheepdog.c
>> > -T: git git://github.com/codyprime/qemu-kvm-jtc.git block
>> >  
>> >  VHDX
>> > -M: Jeff Cody <address@hidden>
>> >  L: address@hidden
>> >  S: Supported
>> >  F: block/vhdx*
>> > -T: git git://github.com/codyprime/qemu-kvm-jtc.git block
>> 
>> Does "S: Supported" make sense without an M:?
>> 
>> >  
>> >  VDI
>> >  M: Stefan Weil <address@hidden>
>> > @@ -2034,34 +2028,26 @@ F: docs/interop/nbd.txt
>> >  T: git git://repo.or.cz/qemu/ericb.git nbd
>> >  
>> >  NFS
>> > -M: Jeff Cody <address@hidden>
>> >  M: Peter Lieven <address@hidden>
>> >  L: address@hidden
>> >  S: Maintained
>> >  F: block/nfs.c
>> > -T: git git://github.com/codyprime/qemu-kvm-jtc.git block
>> >  
>> >  SSH
>> >  M: Richard W.M. Jones <address@hidden>
>> > -M: Jeff Cody <address@hidden>
>> >  L: address@hidden
>> >  S: Supported
>> >  F: block/ssh.c
>> > -T: git git://github.com/codyprime/qemu-kvm-jtc.git block
>> >  
>> >  CURL
>> > -M: Jeff Cody <address@hidden>
>> >  L: address@hidden
>> >  S: Supported
>> >  F: block/curl.c
>> > -T: git git://github.com/codyprime/qemu-kvm-jtc.git block
>> 
>> Likewise.
>> 
>> >  GLUSTER
>> > -M: Jeff Cody <address@hidden>
>> >  L: address@hidden
>> >  S: Supported
>> >  F: block/gluster.c
>> > -T: git git://github.com/codyprime/qemu-kvm-jtc.git block
>> 
>> Likewise.
>> 
>> >  Null Block Driver
>> >  M: Fam Zheng <address@hidden>
>> 
>
> Block drivers without an M: naturally fall under the overall maintainership of
> block layer (Kevin&Max), so IMO keeping the statuses is fine. Maybe CURL can 
> be
> degraded to Maintained, though.

Yes, get_maintainer.pl combines all applicable sections.  Human readers
are left to wonder, unless they know to look for other matches.

Do we want to have a dedicated network block driver submaintainer again,
if we can find one?

Do we want to have a dedicated VHDX driver submaintainer again?  Fam,
you're maintaining VMDK, could you cover VHDX as well?