Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: list myself as maintainer for various Arm boards

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 12:13 PM Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 13 November 2018 at 20:10, Alistair Francis <address@hidden> wrote:
> > These two and the Xilinx boards seem a little out of place in this
> > patch. I agree they probably aren't maintained as well as they should
> > be, but the patch talks about orphaned boards and these four all have
> > active QEMU maintainers listed.
>
> Yeah, I was planning to improve the commit message,
> something along the lines of an extra para:
>
> "The Xilinx boards are maintained, but patches to
> them go via the target-arm tree, so add myself as a
> maintainer there too."
>
> Really this is because we're overloading "maintainer"
> to mean both "this person cares about and is the
> primary reviewer and yes/no decision for them" and
> also "this person is responsible for getting the
> patches into the tree". Perhaps we should instead
> define a new letter tag for the latter ?

What about changing the 'M:' tag description to the one you just suggested?