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

On 10/22/2014 09:22 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> Actually, it does not ignore that.
> What it does it list status as "odd fixer".
> 
> So this boils down to the fact that we use
> "odd fixer" incorrectly.
> 
> I will apply this for now but maybe we should
> change MAINTAINERS switching all "Odd fixes" to
> "Maintained" and then revert this patch.
> 
> Thoughts?

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.  And unless
they're trivial or egregious, I would not spend much time on bug
reports.  It just sets expectations right.

Paolo