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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 18/47] MAINTAINERS: add missing TCG entry
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Paolo Bonzini |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 18/47] MAINTAINERS: add missing TCG entry |
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Fri, 11 Aug 2017 14:06:29 +0200 |
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On 11/08/2017 09:54, Fam Zheng wrote:
> On Thu, 08/10 12:25, Cornelia Huck wrote:
>>> I think the UI (giving no consideration to how we might implement
>>> this!) would ideally be something like:
>>> * if anybody mails a patch which touches an "unmaintained" file,
>>> a robot should send a reply along the lines of "thanks for the
>>> patch; unfortunately file X is not maintained so it may be
>>> tricky to get patch review for this. You'll need to be
>>> persistent and do more of the legwork than if you were patching
>>> a file that did have an active maintainer" so contributors
>>> know when they've wandered into the swamp
>>
>> That's a good idea.
>>
>>> * some mechanism for easily finding patches to unmaintained
>>> files which haven't got review yet, so that anybody with some
>>> spare time and interest can move some of them along (the idea
>>> being to spread the load rather than trying to designate a
>>> particular "owner" for this headache)
>>
>> Can maybe patchew set a special flag for patches that only touch
>> unmaintained files?
>
> Interesting idea. We have a number of patch status tracking feature requests
> for
> patchew already. We can tackle them one by one. (The next priority is
> implement
> "merged".)
Do you use github issues?
Paolo
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 18/47] MAINTAINERS: add missing TCG entry, Alex Bennée, 2017/08/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 18/47] MAINTAINERS: add missing TCG entry, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé, 2017/08/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 18/47] MAINTAINERS: add missing TCG entry, Alex Bennée, 2017/08/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 18/47] MAINTAINERS: add missing TCG entry, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé, 2017/08/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 18/47] MAINTAINERS: add missing TCG entry, Cornelia Huck, 2017/08/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 18/47] MAINTAINERS: add missing TCG entry, Peter Maydell, 2017/08/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 18/47] MAINTAINERS: add missing TCG entry, Cornelia Huck, 2017/08/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 18/47] MAINTAINERS: add missing TCG entry, Fam Zheng, 2017/08/11
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 18/47] MAINTAINERS: add missing TCG entry,
Paolo Bonzini <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 18/47] MAINTAINERS: add missing TCG entry, Fam Zheng, 2017/08/11
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 18/47] MAINTAINERS: add missing TCG entry, Peter Maydell, 2017/08/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 18/47] MAINTAINERS: add missing TCG entry, Paolo Bonzini, 2017/08/10