Re: [PATCH] target/ppc, hw/ppc: Change maintainers

[Daniel Henrique Barboza]

On 11/5/21 16:16, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> On 11/5/21 10:48, Daniel Henrique Barboza wrote:
> > On 11/5/21 00:46, David Gibson wrote:
> > > As our day jobs and interests have moved onto other things, Greg and I
> > > have
> > > been struggling to keep on top of maintainership of target/ppc and
> > > associated pieces like the pseries and powernv machine types, with their
> > > platform specific devices.
> > >
> > > We've therefore discussed and plan to transfer maintainership to
> > > Cédric Le
> > > Goater (primary) and Daniel Henrique Barboza (backup).  Cédric and Daniel
> > > have been actively contributing to the area for some time, and they're
> > > supported in this by their current employer, IBM, who has an obvious
> > > interest in the platform.
> >
> > Thank you and Greg and Red Hat for all the years of service supporting
> > qemu-ppc in the community. IBM will shoulder this responsibility now.
>
> In term of the MAINTAINERS file:
>
>          S: Status, one of the following:
>             Supported:   Someone is actually paid to look after this.
>             Maintained:  Someone actually looks after it.
>
> The PPC entries have a 'Maintained' status. You say "IBM will shoulder
> this responsibility", does that mean the entries will be 'Supported'
> as in "someone paid to look after them"?

Yes. It's appropriate to change the PPC entries of this patch to "Supported"
now.


> I wonder because both Cédric and you have some commits with an IBM
> email, but both are registering a non-IBM email as contact. I don't
> mind the email technical detail, but I am curious about the status
> and expectations.

I had problems using IBM corporate email with mailing lists in the past,
and started using this gmail account instead. I believe Cedric has a
similar sob story.

FWIW the contrib/gitdm/group-map-ibm file has both our emails there to
indicate that we're IBM contributors.


Thanks,


Daniel

> Thanks,
>
> Phil.
>
> > > Greg and I do plan to stay around in some capacity for at least the next
> > > 6 months, providing reviews and advice to assist the new maintainers into
> > > the role.
> >
> > I hope both of you stay around way longer than that :)
> >
> >
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
> >
> > > Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
> > > ---
> > >    MAINTAINERS | 20 ++++++++++++++------
> > >    1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > > index 797be5b366..066c4fb2b0 100644
> > > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > > @@ -262,8 +262,10 @@ F: hw/openrisc/
> > >    F: tests/tcg/openrisc/
> > >      PowerPC TCG CPUs
> > > -M: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
> > > -M: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
> > > +M: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
> > > +M: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
> > > +R: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
> > > +R: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
> > >    L: qemu-ppc@nongnu.org
> > >    S: Maintained
> > >    F: target/ppc/
> > > @@ -382,8 +384,10 @@ F: target/mips/kvm*
> > >    F: target/mips/sysemu/
> > >      PPC KVM CPUs
> > > -M: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
> > > -M: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
> > > +M: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
> > > +M: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
> > > +R: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
> > > +R: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
> > >    S: Maintained
> > >    F: target/ppc/kvm.c
> > >    @@ -1321,8 +1325,10 @@ F: include/hw/rtc/m48t59.h
> > >    F: tests/acceptance/ppc_prep_40p.py
> > >      sPAPR
> > > -M: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
> > > -M: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
> > > +M: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
> > > +M: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
> > > +R: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
> > > +R: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
> > >    L: qemu-ppc@nongnu.org
> > >    S: Maintained
> > >    F: hw/*/spapr*
> > > @@ -1382,6 +1388,8 @@ F: include/hw/pci-host/mv64361.h
> > >      Virtual Open Firmware (VOF)
> > >    M: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
> > > +R: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
> > > +R: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
> > >    R: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
> > >    R: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
> > >    L: qemu-ppc@nongnu.org