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From: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
To: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>,
	Tim Waugh <tim@cyberelk.net>, Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>,
	Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>,
	Willy Tarreau <willy@meta-x.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org,
	"devel@driverdev.osuosl.org" <devel@driverdev.osuosl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] MAINTAINERS: maintain parport
Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 22:36:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <555CF034.5090704@nod.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150520173324.3090a6d7@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>

Am 20.05.2015 um 18:33 schrieb One Thousand Gnomes:
> On Wed, 20 May 2015 17:46:44 +0200
> Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 5:27 PM, Sudip Mukherjee
>> <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Lets give the parport subsystem a proper name and start
>>> maintaining the files.
>>
>> Excuse me, but usually someone takes over the maintainer role after
>> proving that he
>> cares for a sub system for a certain period of time.
>> Or did I miss something?
> 
> It currently (and for some time) has had no maintainer so having a
> maintainer is IMHO definitely an improvement in things.

Having a maintainer is good.
All I wanted to point out was that it is IMHO uncommon to claim maintainership
before being the main contributor or the de facto maintainer of a
subsystem.

This "rule" prevents us from "Mommy!!! Look, I'm a maintainer!!!1" patches. ;-)

Thanks,
//richard

  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-20 20:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-20 15:26 [PATCH 0/6] use devicemodel with parport Sudip Mukherjee
2015-05-20 15:26 ` Sudip Mukherjee
2015-05-20 15:26 ` [PATCH 1/6] parport: add device-model to parport subsystem Sudip Mukherjee
2015-05-20 15:26   ` Sudip Mukherjee
2015-05-20 15:26 ` [PATCH 2/6] staging: panel: use new parport device model Sudip Mukherjee
2015-05-20 15:26 ` [PATCH 3/6] i2c-parport: define ports to connect Sudip Mukherjee
2015-05-20 15:26   ` Sudip Mukherjee
2015-05-20 15:46   ` Wolfram Sang
2015-05-20 15:46     ` Wolfram Sang
2015-05-20 15:27 ` [PATCH 4/6] i2c-parport: use new parport device model Sudip Mukherjee
2015-05-20 15:49   ` Wolfram Sang
2015-05-20 17:14     ` Sudip Mukherjee
2015-05-20 17:14       ` Sudip Mukherjee
2015-05-20 17:35       ` Wolfram Sang
2015-05-20 17:35         ` Wolfram Sang
2015-05-20 17:59       ` Jean Delvare
2015-05-20 17:59         ` Jean Delvare
2015-05-21  1:02         ` [RFC PATCH] checkpatch: check for 2 or more spaces around assignment of a declaration Joe Perches
2015-05-21  5:48           ` Willy Tarreau
2015-05-21  5:48             ` Willy Tarreau
2015-05-21  6:16   ` [PATCH v2 4/6] i2c-parport: use new parport device model Sudip Mukherjee
2015-05-21  6:16     ` Sudip Mukherjee
2015-05-20 15:27 ` [PATCH 5/6] paride: " Sudip Mukherjee
2015-05-20 15:27   ` Sudip Mukherjee
2015-05-20 15:27 ` [PATCH 6/6] MAINTAINERS: maintain parport Sudip Mukherjee
2015-05-20 15:46   ` Richard Weinberger
2015-05-20 15:46     ` Richard Weinberger
2015-05-20 16:28     ` Joe Perches
2015-05-20 16:28       ` Joe Perches
2015-05-20 17:31       ` Sudip Mukherjee
2015-05-20 17:31         ` Sudip Mukherjee
2015-05-20 16:33     ` One Thousand Gnomes
2015-05-20 16:33       ` One Thousand Gnomes
2015-05-20 20:36       ` Richard Weinberger [this message]
     [not found]         ` <555CF034.5090704-/L3Ra7n9ekc@public.gmane.org>
2015-05-21  5:59           ` Sudip Mukherjee
2015-05-21  5:59             ` Sudip Mukherjee
2015-05-21  5:51     ` Willy Tarreau
2015-05-21  5:51       ` Willy Tarreau
2015-05-21  6:09       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-05-21  6:09         ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-05-31 22:05 ` [PATCH 0/6] use devicemodel with parport Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-05-31 22:05   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
     [not found]   ` <20150531220530.GF13872-U8xfFu+wG4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2015-06-01  5:46     ` Sudip Mukherjee
2015-06-01  5:46       ` Sudip Mukherjee
2015-06-01  6:18       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-06-01  6:18         ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
     [not found]         ` <20150601061811.GA5103-U8xfFu+wG4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2015-06-01  8:34           ` Sudip Mukherjee
2015-06-01  8:34             ` Sudip Mukherjee

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