From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753658AbbEUF7y (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 May 2015 01:59:54 -0400 Received: from mail-pd0-f171.google.com ([209.85.192.171]:32990 "EHLO mail-pd0-f171.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751481AbbEUF7t (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 May 2015 01:59:49 -0400 Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 11:29:41 +0530 From: Sudip Mukherjee To: Richard Weinberger Cc: One Thousand Gnomes , Tim Waugh , Jean Delvare , Wolfram Sang , Willy Tarreau , Greg Kroah-Hartman , LKML , linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org, "devel@driverdev.osuosl.org" , dan.carpenter@oracle.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] MAINTAINERS: maintain parport Message-ID: <20150521055941.GB4339@sudip-PC> References: <1432135622-8288-1-git-send-email-sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> <1432135622-8288-7-git-send-email-sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> <20150520173324.3090a6d7@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <555CF034.5090704@nod.at> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <555CF034.5090704@nod.at> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 10:36:04PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote: > Am 20.05.2015 um 18:33 schrieb One Thousand Gnomes: > > On Wed, 20 May 2015 17:46:44 +0200 > > Richard Weinberger wrote: > > > >> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 5:27 PM, Sudip Mukherjee > >> wrote: > >>> Lets give the parport subsystem a proper name and start > >>> maintaining the files. > >> > >> Excuse me, but usually someone takes over the maintainer role after > >> proving that he > >> cares for a sub system for a certain period of time. > >> Or did I miss something? > > > > It currently (and for some time) has had no maintainer so having a > > maintainer is IMHO definitely an improvement in things. > > Having a maintainer is good. > All I wanted to point out was that it is IMHO uncommon to claim maintainership > before being the main contributor or the de facto maintainer of a > subsystem. > > This "rule" prevents us from "Mommy!!! Look, I'm a maintainer!!!1" patches. ;-) I already have my name in the MAINTAINERS file, so that is not a cookie to cry for. Personnaly I will prefer Joe Perches or Dan Carpenter to be the maintainer. They have reviewed many of my patches since I started contributing here and I have learnt and still learning many things from them. if this patch is a debatable topic, then lets drop it. I have written these changes, and will write the next changes also, it doesnot matter if my name is there in the MAINTAINERS or not. The main reason I gave this patch is just because if any problem (read as regression) arises due to these changes then those problem mails would have directly come to my inbox. regards sudip > > Thanks, > //richard