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Fri, 13 Mar 2026 08:51:25 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:51:24 +0000 From: Josh Law To: "Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)" Cc: Christian Brauner , Vlastimil Babka , linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Josh Law , mm-commits@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet , "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" Message-ID: <28175752-2775-476d-9485-499335a99aea@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <01a6bbcc-1442-48c7-be5b-14f07fe655c9@lucifer.local> References: <20260307221931.2848601-1-objecting@objecting.org> <3cd25de5-3737-49f4-aa8b-eaaee471af50@lucifer.local> <20260307222154.2848660-1-objecting@objecting.org> <667b75ad-bce9-4997-8ebf-8077952c2797@gmail.com> <20260313-anvisiert-gemeckert-352414e3d58d@brauner> <20260313-halskette-annahme-94e782eb4ae4@brauner> <01a6bbcc-1442-48c7-be5b-14f07fe655c9@lucifer.local> Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add Josh Law as reviewer for library code Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Correlation-ID: <28175752-2775-476d-9485-499335a99aea@gmail.com> 13 Mar 2026 15:48:32 Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) : > +cc David for mention > > On Fri, Mar 13, 2026 at 04:33:49PM +0100, Christian Brauner wrote: >> - first patch Feb 28 under pseudonym "techyguyperplexable", switched to = "Josh Law" only when Andrew required a real name >> =C2=A0 in https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260228114939.de7d44de38d907a9b66= 32480@linux-foundation.org >> - 142+ emails in ~2 weeks =E2=80=94 37 patches in a single day (Mar 1) >> - All trivial/cosmetic =E2=80=94 SPDX headers, comment grammar, spacing,= const qualifiers. Zero bug fixes, zero new functionality >> - Carpet-bombed multiple subsystems =E2=80=94 lib/, arm64/, staging/, in= put/, etc. >> - within 1 week of first-ever patch, submitted MAINTAINERS: add Josh Law= as reviewer for library code covering all of lib/ (locking.c, iov_iter.c, = rhashtable.c, etc.) >> - Email identity mismatch =E2=80=94 From: hlcj1234567@gmail.com, Signed-= off-by: objecting@objecting.org >> - Formatting problems =E2=80=94 top-posting, line length violations, pat= ches not applying cleanly >> >> So I mean, one week to Reviewer. Even if we're being very generous here, >> we need to do a lot more due diligence going forward. We can't just hand >> out core components like this and risking our reputation and security >> posture. > > Thanks! Agree absolutely that we need to be careful about this. Jia Tan s= hould > be instructive. > > Josh - there's nothing personal here to be clear, this is a question of > procedure and caution. > > More broadly I think we should avoid assigning new people to catch-all > categories anyway unless they are well established enough to be involved = with > _everything_ the catch-all covers. > > For instance adding people to the mm/* other than perhaps... David ;) wou= ld be > crazy. > > Also - Andrew - I think for cases where you are the only maintainer but i= t > impacts others, you should seek acks proportional to the scope the MAINTA= INERS > entry spans - in this case that'd be a _lot_ of people - but that only > underlines that we shouldn't be updating such entries anyway. > > In fact - can we just do away with catch-all's and just make sure MAINTAI= NERS > entries are established for everything? > > I have ground to stand on for this as I personally did it for mm, althoug= h we do > still have a catch-all (not sure if necessary any more?) > > In the case of lib/ a quick fix could be to figure out which files are no= t > covered by other MAINTAINERS entries and adding them all to what is curre= ntly > the catch-all? > > Cheers, Lorenzo Well, it's already been merged into linux-next, I will keep constantly tryi= ng to prove myself as a trusted figure in the community, and I am learning = new things every day about the rules, and when you talk about me making "tr= ivial" patches, I also made some medium sized bug fixes, yeah my start was = just "janitor" code, but I will try to prove myself, V/R Josh Law