Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add self as virtio co-maintainer

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 11:51:05AM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 10:37:16AM +0100, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> > Am 26.01.2014 um 11:40 hat Michael S. Tsirkin geschrieben:
> > > This will help make sure I get Cc'd on patches.
> > 
> > You wish...
> > 
> > This won't change the actual responsibility, i.e. patches to virtio-blk
> > are still meant to be merged through the block tree, right? It's just so
> > you get a chance to comment?
> 
> The proper way to document that is for us to split out virtio-blk.c and
> add the block tree git repo URL.  Let's avoid informal agreements so
> that maintainership is clear to everyone from just the ./MAINTAINERS file.
> 
> Stefan

MAINTAINERS is really about getting all the right people Cc'd.
Who merges what can't be formalized using regular expressions:
it depends on more than which files are changed.

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