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From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] MAINTAINERS: Add myself as co-maintainer to fpga mgr
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On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 08:48:57AM +0100, Michal Simek wrote:

> TBH. I think it is not a bad option. I do normally have backup person
> for all repos I do maintain. It doesn't mean that second maintainer does
> something but it has all accesses to repos you maintain.

I agree, it is a good idea to have a maintainer team model as early as
possible just because stuff does happen. We've had to recover from MIA
maintainers in RDMA and TPM, and it is not really nice. Generally
a lot of patches just get dropped :(

Jason