From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DF4652F361A for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2026 13:59:51 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1769176791; cv=none; b=ViUHD4n9ckdRoi+ww5Bp04NsV20U9fg8Z1ILq5UP2Gw9iHv6z1CT9fHvJPKv744G3T2aGkIBcusJ79u/pDnuHq9nKHz7dvofJDBPgoAzBdaN3j7MXbYokEIfFlyTOKjSUWJakLGe8CKEkW/Tn/Mt4v3yi+lKLf0lYYeXlYs6SUI= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1769176791; c=relaxed/simple; bh=bOwB+6jFlQ7iSC8wkTv30Rdr61wfqkVfXuMyGTo45zQ=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=BBSrugZiXfiO1x91NFACyKAOQ4EQiYkwjEjP2RTwwu85oBZohHAq/El57oRpuRkmWEJ/+ODQVyc3vV8QKt7HVEUaeU3PrI3H/NxOGq1/428XWZnVowWr6fe2f+7DcXBK39tO6EeVnKV+ZU8Jo1do7PhZkEEIY34aNTVjFIH4lNE= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=ZR9JCXd6; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="ZR9JCXd6" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8BC29C4CEF1; Fri, 23 Jan 2026 13:59:51 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1769176791; bh=bOwB+6jFlQ7iSC8wkTv30Rdr61wfqkVfXuMyGTo45zQ=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=ZR9JCXd6xZyxgzb7BalO7sgSdeQXuQ/yJ5xAj0Qyk6vLmNPa6JmFmhPPtEg0aSMWn EVPwlM4DIV0+XUV7JgtBLX8AIFOsq/qJYAwDsTA7RY/Z1h1lZbAkcHfweccLSQsBFX 63FQBo0w3ajplA7z1tIN3mxU3javlWOIcg0hDT5Fyc39CEfK7QEkHXjA16L94p0iC7 tsuedUCMpy/6/WvYj/erJ633pPrd3AkFueLWWqEBvlBgr5Zv+r6gCMjvcVq4RVjUI9 l98FD3InLlGa833oEeSTNt5PEqdoszws16eUb/MV/0TkJZEYUMpQa+Ie2zK9ng7+dj kOXmoqLsAE6jA== Received: from localhost ([::1]) by mail.kernel.org with esmtp (Exim 4.99.1) (envelope-from ) id 1vjHhV-000000063zU-2Gzn; Fri, 23 Jan 2026 14:59:49 +0100 Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2026 14:59:10 +0100 From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab To: Hans Verkuil Cc: Ricardo Ribalda , linux-media@vger.kernel.org, Sakari Ailus , Laurent Pinchart , Sean Young , Nicolas Dufresne , Bryan O'Donoghue Subject: Re: [PATCHv6 1/3] docs: media: update maintainer-entry-profile for multi-committers Message-ID: <20260123145910.7b9fb258@localhost> In-Reply-To: References: <1495ec4ccdcdfab788fa9d02e11a6028a455e31b.1761571713.git.hverkuil+cisco@kernel.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 4.3.1 (GTK 3.24.51; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-media@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Fri, 23 Jan 2026 14:42:30 +0100 Hans Verkuil wrote: > On 03/12/2025 13:27, Ricardo Ribalda wrote: > > Hi Hans > > > > Thanks for the new version > > > > On Mon, 27 Oct 2025 at 14:51, Hans Verkuil wrote: > >> > > > > I also prefer the original nomenclature for the roles: > > > > Contributor: Anyone that posts a patch to the ML > > Committer: Contributors that can commit (List provided by you) > > Core Committer: Laurent, Sakari, Sean and Sebastian (Names in the > > original presentation, should be updated) > > Subsystem Maintainer: Mauro and Hans > > > > In my head, a maintainer is someone that pushes to the upper tree, > > rebases and merges. In the media-committer tree that is only you and > > Mauro. > > No, a maintainer is someone who decides when patches are ready for > mainline inclusion and posts PRs. A committer is a maintainer who > can directly push patches to the git tree and can skip the PR step. > > Previous versions of this series mixed those concepts, which was very confusing. The problem with this version is that it is also mixing/overriding nomenclatures. Basically: - a maintainer is anyone with his name at MAINTAINERS file; - subsystem maintainer is also a clear concept. We need to avoid more mess to the "maintainer" here. This was clearer at the previous version, as "committer" and "core committer" are clear concepts and won't conflict with existing nomenclature, but now that we're splitting committer function as an orthogonal attribute (nothing against that), we need better names for the maintainers that are described on this profile. maybe: - media core maintainer: for people responsible to maintain part of the media framework; - media driver maintainer: for everyone else that is listed at MAINTAINERS with stuff under drivers/media and/or drivers/staging/media(*) and it is not a media core maintainer. (*) Should the ones with drivers only at staging be placed on a different group like "staging media driver maintainer"? Regards, Mauro