Re: [PATCH] agents: Add a skill for finding your way around QEMU

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Sep 03, 2026 at 10:10:59AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 3, 2026 at 10:08 AM Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 03, 2026 at 09:36:56AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > > +## Finding things
> > > +
> > > +`MAINTAINERS` is the authoritative map from file patterns to subsystems
> > > +and maintainers; use it to work out who owns code and which tree a
> > > +change goes through.
> >
> > Does the tree actually matter to agents or contributors sending patches ?
> > I would tend to say "use it to work out which maintainers to CC when
> > sending patches".  The receiving maintainer(s) will decide which tree
> > it will go through.
> 
> s/work out/suggest/ - since sending should still be a human act even
> with the proposal under discussion.

Or maybe we just instruct it to run 'get_maintainers.pl' to
work out the CC list ? That script is deterministic and thus
would not typically need human oversight, which will know will
often be skipped even if we require oversight in policy.

With regards,
Daniel
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