Re: [RFC] Add co-maintainer for fbdev

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Wed, 29 May 2013 10:32:08 +0900 Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com> wrote:

> On Wednesday, May 29, 2013 6:20 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Monday 27 May 2013, Florian Tobias Schandinat wrote:
> > > >> On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
> > > >> <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com> wrote:
> > > >>> Hi Florian,
> > > >>>
> > > >>>         As you seems very busy I'd like to propose the help you to handle the
> > > >>>         fbdev subsystem to easier the rich of the fbdev patch to Linus
> > > >>>
> > > >>>         As I'm working on fbdev on at91 and others and already Co-Maintain the
> > > >>>         at91 mach on ARM
> > > >>>
> > > >>>         And if you are not willing to continue I could take over
> > >
> > > Yeah, it would be great if you could help, at the moment I get barely
> > > any sleep, let alone that I could keep up with the majority of mail I
> > > get. I'll let you decide whether you want to be sole maintainer or not.
> > 
> > For any bigger subsystems, it's good practice to have two maintainers,
> > even if one of them does all the work. I think it makes sense to have
> > Jean-Christophe as the primary maintainer and owner of the git tree,
> > but it may also be good to have you or Tomi listed as a second maintainer
> > for times when Jean-Christophe isn't available.
> 
> Hi Arnd,
> 
> I agree with Arnd's opinion.
> It looks good to have Florian or Tomi listed as a second maintainer.

Someone send a patch!