From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760131AbdKQSOW (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Nov 2017 13:14:22 -0500 Received: from mail-wr0-f195.google.com ([209.85.128.195]:33736 "EHLO mail-wr0-f195.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760101AbdKQSOP (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Nov 2017 13:14:15 -0500 X-Google-Smtp-Source: AGs4zMboEGVLjEwA5xI73LiX3g7LnBSFLTGVvcFwUFRg012/gm9iGgjJZn42LaD+gaEgaJXtK8ntXg== Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 11:14:10 -0700 From: Jason Gunthorpe To: Bart Van Assche Cc: "dledford@redhat.com" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH] rdma: Add Jason as a co-maintainer Message-ID: <20171117181410.GL4276@ziepe.ca> References: <20171116204400.GA28216@mellanox.com> <1510941272.2846.46.camel@wdc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1510941272.2846.46.camel@wdc.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 05:54:34PM +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote: > Thanks Doug for having added a co-maintainer. Jason, thank you for willing > to be a co-maintainer. Thank you Bart! > Jason, if you are going to send pull requests to Linus you should be aware > of the following: I think we will work up to that, obviously I will be working with Doug and his expertise and experience will guide what happens. A new git tree has been setup for RDMA: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdma/rdma.git/ This will replace Doug's personal k.o tree effective immediately as the cannonical source for the RDMA work in progress. Both Doug and I have write privileges to this tree. > * Linus trusts pull requests from a kernel.org repository more than pull > requests from a repository outside kernel.org (e.g. github). Any requests > to pull from e.g. github must be PGP-signed. Done > * If you send an e-mail to Wu Fengguang then he will add a branch from your > repository to his zero-day testing. This is a great way to catch build > failures before linux-next catches these. Thanks > * Any patches that will be sent to Linus must have been in the for-next > repository for at least a few days. Requests to add a branch to linux-next > should be sent to Stephen Rothwell with linux-next in Cc. Doug will send Stephen Rothwell a note to move his for-next pull for RDMA from Doug's personal directory to: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdma/rdma.git Branch k.o/for-next > * Maintainers are expected to keep an eye on merge conflicts and other reports > sent out to the linux-next mailing list > (http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-next). Good advice.. > * Rebasing a tree that will be sent to Linus is completely inacceptable. A > quote from Linus: "And in general, you simply should never rebase commits > that have already been publicized." Source: Linus Torvalds, Re: linux-next: > Signed-off-by missing for commit in the drivers-x86 tree, linux-next mailing > list, 2 August 2017 (https://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg2571584.html). Yes, of course > * Backmerging (merging a later rc into a maintainer tree) to pull in rc fixes > from other maintainers is considered inacceptable too. If patches from other > maintainers are really needed I think it is acceptable to merge a maintainer > tree into Linus' tree and to apply late rc patches on top of that merged > tree. Yes, this gets tricky if two trees have to coordinate.. Jason