From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44204) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xgqxh-0008DJ-SR for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 22 Oct 2014 04:08:11 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xgqxb-0003uG-Oa for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 22 Oct 2014 04:08:05 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:45496) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xgqxb-0003tD-Gk for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 22 Oct 2014 04:07:59 -0400 Message-ID: <544765D8.9020706@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 10:07:52 +0200 From: Paolo Bonzini MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1413891300-23369-1-git-send-email-mst@redhat.com> <20141022072204.GA28193@redhat.com> <54476089.7020402@redhat.com> <20141022080844.GA4789@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20141022080844.GA4789@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] scripts/get_maintainer.pl: allow "odd fixes" List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Cc: Peter Maydell , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Markus Armbruster , Gerd Hoffmann 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