Re: [Qemu-devel] Unclear committer situation

[Alexander Graf]

andrzej zaborowski wrote:
> 2009/12/1 Alexander Graf <address@hidden>:
>   
>> Maintainership for a subsystem is completely different from "feeling 
>> responsible for patches". You can be the person checking stuff in without 
>> knowing anything about the subsystem. If it breaks, have the community fix 
>> it. If it stays broken and nobody cares, remove the subsystem.
>>     
>
> If it leads to removing the subsystem then it's not much gain for the
> project and the users :)
>
> I don't know of any succesful project that has maintainers who don't
> feel responsible for the code they're comming.
>   

Well the point I was trying to make is that committer != maintainer. Avi
commits PPC/S390 kvm stuff all the time without knowing the
architectures inside out ;).

Alex