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

[David Gibson]

On Fri, Nov 05, 2021 at 05:05:25PM -0300, Daniel Henrique Barboza wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.

Good point, I've adjusted that.

> > 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
> > > > 
> > > 
> > 
> 

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