Re: [PATCH] add ptrace entry to MAINTAINERS

Joe Perches
2009-04-14T02:19:25Z

On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 02:42 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
>
> > At the LF collab summit we decided to make Roland official ptrace
> > maintainer not just the defacto one he has been for a couple of years
> > now.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
>
> Hm, what is this "LF collab summit" that makes decisions in terms of
> who maintains what? Some new buerocracy on top of Linux i have not
> heard about yet? :)

I think the MAINTAINERS file could
use a new status type.

These are the status types today:

Supported: Someone is actually paid to look after this.
Maintained: Someone actually looks after it.
Odd Fixes: It has a maintainer but they don't have time to do
much other than throw the odd patch in. See below..
Orphan: No current maintainer [but maybe you could take the
role as you write your new code].
Obsolete: Old code. Something tagged obsolete generally means
it has been replaced by a better system and you
should be using that.

Maybe it'd be useful to have a defined
aggregator/overseer/gatekeeper role.

Basically what Greg Kroah-Hartman does for staging
and David Miller does for driver/net