Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] auxdisplay: Take over maintainership, but in Odd Fixes mode

Miguel Ojeda
2024-02-13T12:12:04Z

On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 9:10 AM Javier Martinez Canillas
<javierm@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> AFAICT Miguel Ojeda is quite responsive and is still doing reviews/acks
> for auxdisplay patches. Can you elaborate why the maintainership change
> has to be made?
>
> You can still be listed as co-maintainer of course, and maybe Miguel is
> on board to drop this but then I think that should be mentioned in your
> commit message (and have an ack from him).

Thanks Javier, I appreciate the kind words.

To clarify, auxdisplay has had just about 16 patches a year (i.e. very
low), and a significant fraction of those came from Andy and Geert. In
addition, they have some of the relevant hardware and have tested
patches in the past (which I really appreciated). By contrast, I have
not had any of the hardware for years now.

So I asked Geert and Andy in private if they wanted to become the
maintainers/reviewers. They do not have much time, but Andy wants to
submit a new driver anyway, so we ended up going with Andy as M and
Geert as R, which I really appreciate.

If somebody else wants to join, I am sure they would be happy to. And
for those that may not be involved with upstream development but have
some kernel development experience, this may be a nice opportunity as
well to try becoming a reviewer/maintainer -- it is a small, fun
subsystem (if you have the hardware), with low traffic, and with a few
experienced maintainers around it like Andy and Geert that may be able
to help test patches etc.

Cheers,
Miguel