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Date:   Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:17:16 +0200
From:   Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
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Hi all,

The Linux-MIPS project has not been very active during the last couple 
merge windows, this made me think that maybe our project model is not so 
well suited for handling all the patches coming through linux-mips, so 
here is a proposal of how I see things might be changed, highly inspired 
from the ARM community.

To help with the number of patches, we should create two groups of people:

1) people in charge of reviewing all the MIPS-related infrastructure, 
shared code, CPU-specific code etc. For this specific task, I was 
thinking about Ralf, David D. (CAVM), SJ Hill (MTI), Kevin Cernekee for 
instance. The idea is to have both enough reviewers and committers to 
push changes, and have some level of redundancy in case Ralf cannot 
submit the pull request.

2) people in charge of maintaining a SoC, who deal with more subsystems 
than just MIPS, and usually need general review, both from the "core" 
MIPS developers, and also other subsystem maintainers, but, in the end, 
can manage themselves a patch queue in a separate tree and just send 
pull requests.

Device Tree is now the standard for accepting new architectures/SoCs in 
Linux, and this usually demands more reviewers as well as good 
reactivity from the various maintainers, but in the end, there are just 
more patches being or about to be posted to linux-mips.

What do you guys think about this?
--
Florian