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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] scripts/get_maintainer.pl: allow "odd
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To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 10:07:52AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
> 
> On 10/22/2014 10:08 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> >> > 
> >> > To me "odd fixes" means I may help shepherding your patches into the
> >> > tree, but I would rather revert a buggy patch than fix it.
> > OK but this is not what MAINTAINERS says:
> > 
> > 
> >            Odd Fixes:   It has a maintainer but they don't have time to do
> >                         much other than throw the odd patch in. See below.
> > 
> > 
> > I don't know what "See below" refers to.
> > But it does seem to imply maintainers don't have time to
> > review patches, so at some level, enabling fallback in
> > this case seems to make sense.
> 
> To me it means that I have time to review patches, but not to do my own
> work on it.
> 
> Paolo

Intersting.
review is "other than throw the odd patch in" so it's hardly
the literal meaning of this text.

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