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Re: [Qemu-devel] MIPS DSP for Qemu
From: |
Wei-Ren Chen |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] MIPS DSP for Qemu |
Date: |
Tue, 9 Oct 2012 11:57:10 +0800 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
> > Since the topic has come up, what is the process for vetting a
> > maintainer?
>
> Well, I can tell you the process I went through in becoming a
> co-maintainer for the ARM target (about a year or so ago now).
> Basically I started out by doing a bunch of work that seemed
> to need doing and that nobody else was doing at the time:
> * submitting patches to fix various bugs
> * reviewing patches other people sent to the list
> * generally taking part in discussions on list and irc
> * collecting up patches and making sure they didn't get
> forgotten
> * progressing to putting together a tree and starting to
> send pull-request emails
> and about the last thing was getting the MAINTAINERS file
> changed to add my name.
> If there was a formal vetting process I didn't notice it :-)
This could be put on wiki page so that people who want to be a
maintainer know what they should do. :)
Regards,
chenwj
--
Wei-Ren Chen (陳韋任)
Computer Systems Lab, Institute of Information Science,
Academia Sinica, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
Tel:886-2-2788-3799 #1667
Homepage: http://people.cs.nctu.edu.tw/~chenwj