Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Merge the Gitlab-CI section into the generic CI section

["Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>]

Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> writes:

> The status of the gitlab-CI files is currently somewhat confusing, and
> it is often not quite clear whether a patch should go via my tree or
> via the testing tree of Alex. That situation has grown historically...
> Initially, I was the only one using the gitlab-CI, just for my private
> repository there. But in the course of time, the gitlab-CI switched to
> use the containers from tests/docker/ (which is not part of the gitlab-CI
> section in the MAINTAINERS file), and QEMU now even switched to gitlab.com
> completely for the repository and will soon use it as its gating CI, too.
> So it makes way more sense if the gitlab-ci.yml files belong to the people
> who are owning the qemu-project on gitlab.com and take care of the gitlab
> CI there. Thus let's merge the gitlab-ci section into the common "test and
> build automation" section,

I have no problem with this, might as well keep it all together.

> and change the status of myself to a "reviewer"
> there instead.

Can we not have multiple maintainers? Considering how important keeping
the testing green should be wouldn't it help to keep the bus factor
lower (not to mention holidays/breaks and just plain busy with other
things periods). It shouldn't be to hard to track as long as we mention
when we queue things to our trees?

> While we're at it, I'm also removing the line with Fam there for now,
> since he was hardly active during the last years in this area anymore.
> If he ever gets more time for this part again in the future, we surely
> can add the line back again.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS | 19 ++++++-------------
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 26c9454823..e9cd29ed0b 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -3262,17 +3262,21 @@ F: include/hw/remote/iohub.h
>  
>  Build and test automation
>  -------------------------
> -Build and test automation
> +Build and test automation, Linux Continuous Integration
>  M: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
> -M: Fam Zheng <fam@euphon.net>
>  R: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
> +R: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
> +R: Wainer dos Santos Moschetta <wainersm@redhat.com>
>  S: Maintained
>  F: .github/lockdown.yml
> +F: .gitlab-ci.yml
> +F: .gitlab-ci.d/
>  F: .travis.yml
>  F: scripts/ci/
>  F: tests/docker/
>  F: tests/vm/
>  F: scripts/archive-source.sh
> +W: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/pipelines
>  W: https://travis-ci.org/qemu/qemu
>  W: http://patchew.org/QEMU/
>  
> @@ -3289,17 +3293,6 @@ S: Maintained
>  F: .cirrus.yml
>  W: https://cirrus-ci.com/github/qemu/qemu
>  
> -GitLab Continuous Integration
> -M: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
> -M: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
> -M: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
> -R: Wainer dos Santos Moschetta <wainersm@redhat.com>
> -S: Maintained
> -F: .gitlab-ci.yml
> -F: .gitlab-ci.d/crossbuilds.yml
> -F: .gitlab-ci.d/*py
> -F: scripts/ci/gitlab-pipeline-status
> -
>  Guest Test Compilation Support
>  M: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
>  R: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>


-- 
Alex Bennée