Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] MAINTAINERS: New section "Incompatible changes", copy libvir-list

[Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>]

On Mon, 16 Jul 2018 09:54:12 +0200
Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:

> On 16.07.2018 09:32, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> > Libvirt developers would like to be copied on patches to qemu-doc
> > appendix "Deprecated features".  Do them the favor.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  MAINTAINERS | 4 ++++
> >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > index 20eef3cb61..666e936812 100644
> > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > @@ -2194,6 +2194,10 @@ M: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
> >  S: Odd Fixes
> >  F: docs/devel/build-system.txt
> >  
> > +Incompatible changes
> > +R: libvir-list@redhat.com
> > +F: qemu-deprecated.texi  
> 
> Should we have a maintainer for the file, too? (I guess not, because
> deprecation patches should go through the specific subsystems...)

I don't think adding a maintainer makes sense for this file.

> And what about a "S:" line?

I don't think that makes too much sense, either.

If anything, qemu-deprecated.texi should be in a category 'maintained
by everybody', i.e. qemu-devel. Just like qemu-doc.texi, which does not
have an entry in MAINTAINERS at all.