Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/10] MAINTAINERS: Take maintainership for QTest

[Peter Maydell]

On 29 April 2014 13:11, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
> It looks like we approach the issue from opposite directions.  You want as
> many files as possible covered by formal maintainers.  I don't care about
> that, and prefer more flexibility for long-time contributors.  I know
> Anthony didn't care, and I enjoyed the flexibility.  I learnt that *you*
> care (the tmp105 story).
>
> I don't know how much Peter cares about having stuff covered by MAINTAINERS.
> The more he does, the more we need to think about how to define the status
> quo in MAINTAINERS.  This means I'd effectively have to add myself there in
> more places.

I don't care that we should have full coverage of every file
in the tree in a MAINTAINERS entry. IMHO MAINTAINERS entries are
for "I care about this code and you should send changes via me
specifically". Where I differ from Anthony is that I really don't
have the time to do review-and-commit of individual patches which
fall through the cracks between maintained areas.

What I think would be preferable would be if we could set up a
process where one or more people could agree to take on that aspect
of what Anthony used to do, and collate those "fall between the
cracks" patches into a tree, which I would then apply pull requests
from in the same way I do for the trivial queue.

thanks
-- PMM