Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add Angelo as MediaTek SoC co-maintainer

Matthias Brugger
2023-10-02T09:41:50Z

On 29/09/2023 10:20, AngeloGioacchino Del Regno wrote:
> I am a top reviewer mainly for MediaTek SoC related patches in most
> subsystems and I've also been upstreaming both improvements, fixes
> and new drivers and devicetrees when required.
>
> The MediaTek scene saw a generous increase in number of patches that
> are sent to the lists every week, increasing the amount of required
> efforts to maintain the MTK bits overall, and we will possibly see
> even more of that.
>
> For this reason, and also because of suggestions and encouragement
> coming from the community, I'm stepping up to be a co-maintainer of
> MediaTek SoCs support.
>
> Signed-off-by: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@collabora.com>

Thanks Angelo to volunteer on this. It actually was on my list for the last days
to ask you to help me out as I'm not able at the moment to cope with the review
process. That's unfortunate and we missed one merge window (August) where I took
no patches but after holiday situation didn't get better. I don't want to be
break in the MediaTek upstream development, so it's great to see you stepping up.

As I read in the thread, I agree the best will be to have a share tree at
kernel.org. It seems I can't share my tree with you, so hopefully you will get
access fast.

My idea is to not disappear and create a collaborative process for us on the
maintainership in the future.

> ---
>
> P.S.: I tried to reach to Matthias for almost two months, but I couldn't
> find any way to talk to him and he has been unresponsive on the mailing
> lists as well.

I think you didn't tried matthias.bgg@kernel.org, but that should be no excuse
from my side for being unresponsive. Thanks for your help!

Please contact me on IRC for any coordination.

Regards,
Matthias

>
> P.P.S.: This also comes after Rob Herring's suggestion to have myself as
> a MediaTek SoC co-maintainer [1] and support from other people.
>
> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230804225813.12493-1-robh@kernel.org/
>
> MAINTAINERS | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 208cfcc1aee3..211a8322c801 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -2330,7 +2330,7 @@ F: drivers/rtc/rtc-mt7622.c
>
> ARM/Mediatek SoC support
> M: Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@gmail.com>
> -R: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@collabora.com>
> +M: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@collabora.com>
> L: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> L: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org (moderated for non-subscribers)
> L: linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org (moderated for non-subscribers)