netdev development process - was Re: [PATCH next-next 0/2] can: cc770: add support for the Bosch CC770 and Intel AN82527

[Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>]

Hello Marc and Urs,

what are your plans regarding a maintainer ship of your persons?

Urs is pretty absent and Marc is pretty active :-)

IMO we should update the MAINTAINERS file to make the responsibilities clear
to Dave & the rest of the world.

@Urs: Should we remove you from net/can maintainers? The fact that you are
module author of several code parts is not touched at all but your activities
to contribute to discussions is close to zero.

@Marc/Wolfgang: What are your thoughts about that? Is Wolfgang still enough or
would you like to share your activities?

I think the remarks from Dave hit the point and we should really try to
minimize confusion when talking to him in the future ...

Regards,
Oliver


>> A not very good dev process - job was done here communicating to me what is happening.
>> Endless revisions, and not clear indication to me what should or should
>> not be applied as a result.
> 
> 
> Well in this case i was just astonished why you applied a superseded patch set
> - but i must admit that the pile-up of posted versions was a bit confusing.
> Even there were platform and devtree patches that needed to be acked by other
> maintainers - IMO we should post these patches on netdev only when they are
> already acked by the platform/devtree guys.
> 
> @Wolfgang/Marc: We should return to discuss the CAN relevant patches on
> linux-can@vger.kernel.org before posting them on netdev. Don't know why this
> established & good process has changed over the time ...
> 
>> I want you guys to appoint someone to be the defacto CAN driver and
>> subsystem maintainer who collects and merges all the driver and
>> protocol patches into his tree, and acts as the one and only interface
>> for me when changes are ready to be included.
> 
> 
> I'm also not very happy someone else acking changes of my maintained sources -
> sometimes it feels like Wild West to me, who's acking first :-(
> 
> To make it clear:
> 
> 	Wolfgang Grandegger maintains drivers/net/can
> 
> and
> 
> 	Oliver Hartkopp maintains net/can
> 
> As Marc Kleine-Budde is also very active in CAN driver development we should
> probably add him to the drivers/net/can maintainers.
> 
> We'll continue the discussion on linux-can ML and give an update to the
> MAINTAINERS file if we sorted out any changes. So far Wolfgang and me remain
> the 'only interface' for you. Sorry for the traffic & confusion on netdev.