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* [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add James as MIPS co-maintainer
@ 2018-01-05 21:36 James Hogan
  2018-01-05 21:56 ` Paul Burton
                   ` (4 more replies)
  0 siblings, 5 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: James Hogan @ 2018-01-05 21:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-mips, Ralf Baechle
  Cc: James Hogan, Paul Burton, David Daney, John Crispin,
	Florian Fainelli, Matt Redfearn

I've been taking on some co-maintainer duties already, so lets make it
official in the MAINTAINERS file.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/33db77a2-32e4-6b2c-d463-9d116ba55623@imgtec.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171207110549.GM27409@jhogan-linux.mipstec.com
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
Cc: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
Cc: John Crispin <john@phrozen.org>
Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Cc: Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@mips.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
---
 MAINTAINERS | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 2d3d750b19c0..61bccbd3715f 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -8983,6 +8983,7 @@ F:	drivers/usb/image/microtek.*
 
 MIPS
 M:	Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
+M:	James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org>
 L:	linux-mips@linux-mips.org
 W:	http://www.linux-mips.org/
 T:	git git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/linux.git
-- 
2.13.6

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* Re: Maintenance of Linux/MIPS?
@ 2017-08-30 10:49 Matt Redfearn
  2017-09-02 19:34 ` [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add James as MIPS co-maintainer Florian Fainelli
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Matt Redfearn @ 2017-08-30 10:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: David Daney, Paul Burton, linux-mips, Florian Fainelli, ralf
  Cc: john, david.daney, James Hogan



On 26/08/17 00:14, David Daney wrote:
> On 08/25/2017 04:07 PM, Paul Burton wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> On Friday, 25 August 2017 14:21:33 PDT Florian Fainelli wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> There are a lot of patches at
>>> https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/project/linux-mips/list/ that 
>>> appear to
>>> be under the "New" state and have not had a chance to be reviewed yet.
>>>
>>> What can we do to help speed up the review process, do we need more
>>> reviewers? It seems like most patches affecting Linux/MIPS are still
>>> core MIPS kernel changes, but would it help if say, people were queuing
>>> SoC/board specific patches in trees and submit pull requests? Would 
>>> that
>>> help lower the amount of patches to review?
>>>
>>> Any other suggestion?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>
>> Personally I think it'd probably be good if Ralf were willing to 
>> formally
>> share maintainership duties with someone else or a group of people. I 
>> think
>> James for example would be a great choice, and already dons a 
>> maintainer hat.
>
> FWIW, I agree.  James has a lot of experience here and has served as 
> maintainer when Ralf was away in the past.  Making him a permanent 
> co-maintainer, or similar, with the explicit mandate of getting 
> patches upstream to Linus, would be beneficial to all who rely on the 
> MIPS Linux kernel.
>
> David.

I'd add my vote to having James as a co-maintainer, which should help 
lower the burden on Ralf and hopefully lead to a faster 
time-to-upstream, as currently quite a few series have required 
respinning simply because the kernel has moved on while they wait and 
the patches have bitrotted.

Matt

>
>
>
>>
>> As-is Ralf ends up being a bottleneck a lot of the time, and the 
>> backlog in
>> patchwork is pretty good evidence of that. There are a whole lot of 
>> patches
>> that ought to be going into v4.14, and that ought to be sat in 
>> linux-next
>> right now in preparation for that. Sadly not many of them are, and 
>> usually
>> that remains the case until very close to the merge window. Sharing 
>> the load
>> could only help with this.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>      Paul
>>
>
>

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