[RFC] List of maintainers (draft #2)

[RFC] List of maintainers (draft #2)

[Denis Vlasenko]

After recent discussion on Linux development practices I think it may be
worthy to have list of lk maintainers. Unlike one included into kernel
source, this document is meant to be monthly (weekly?) mailed to lkml
and to be modified whenever new victim wishes to be listed in it
or someone can no longer devote his time to maintainer work.

This is a draft. I picked some names and addresses and made entried for them.
If you want to be in this list, mail me your corrected entry. Please indicate
what kind of reports you wish to receive and what kind of reports you DON'T
want to see.

I want these entries to sound like "Hey, I am working on these parts of the
kernel, if you have something, send it to me not to Linus". With precise
indication of those parts and your level of involvement:

If you don't want to be in this list, mail me too - I'll remove your entry.

Note that English isn't my native language, feel free to correct any mistakes.
--
vda

* * * * DRAFT * * * *

So, you are new to Linux kernel hacking and want to submit a kernel bug
report but don't know how to do it and _where_ to report it?

Preparing bug report:
=====================
Oops: decode it with ksymoops
Unkillable process: Alt-SysRq-T and ksymoops relevant part
(yes it means you should have ksymoops installed and tested!)

Sending bug report/patch:
=========================
* It never hurts to send to Linux kernel mailing list.
* Some device drivers have active developers, try to contact them first
* Otherwise find a subsystem maintainer to which your report pertains
  and send report to his address.
* Small fixes and device driver updates are best directed to subsystem
  maintainers and "small bits" integrators.
* Do not send it to all addresses at once! This will annoy lots of people
  and isn't useful at all.
* Do NOT send it to Linus.
* If your patch is something big and new, announce it on lkml and try
  to attract testers. After it has been tested and discussed, you can
  expect Linus to consider inclusion in mainline.

Note that this list is sorted in reversed date order, most recent entries 
first. This means than entries at bottom can be outdated :-(


		Current Linux kernel people

Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> [05 feb 2002]
	Post anything related to Linux kernel here, but nothing else :-)

Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca> [5 feb 2002]
	I maintain devfs. I want people to Cc: me when reporting devfs
	problems, since I don't read all messages on linux-kernel.
	Send devfs related patches to me directly, rather than
	bypassing me and sending to Linus/Marcelo/Alan/Dave etc.

Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au> [05 feb 2002]
	I'm receptive to any reproducible bug anywhere in the 2.4 kernel.
	Specialising in ext2, ext3 and network drivers.
	Not thinking about 2.5.x at this time.

Petr Vandrovec <vandrove@vc.cvut.cz> [05 feb 2002]
	ncpfs filesystem, matrox framebuffer driver, problems related
	to VMware - in all of 2.2.x, 2.4.x and 2.5.x.

Reiserfs developers list <reiserfs-dev@namesys.com> [05 feb 2002]
	Send all reiserfs-related stuff here including but not limited to bug
	reports, fixes, suggestions

Oleg Drokin <green@linuxhacker.ru> [05 feb 2002]
	SA11x0 USB-ethernet and SA11x0 watchdog are mine

Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@ucw.cz> [05 feb 2002]
	Feel free to send me bug reports and patches to input device drivers
	(drivers/input/*, drivers/char/joystick/*)
	I also want to receive bug reports and patches for following
	USB drivers: printer, acm, catc, hid*, usbmouse, usbkbd, wacom.
	All other (not in the list) USB driver changes should go to USB
	maintainer (hopefully there is one listed here :-).
	Also CC me if you are posting VIA IDE driver related message
	(although I am not IDE subsystem maintainer).

======= I am waiting confirmation from these people ========

Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> [5 feb 2002]
	I am 2.2 maintainer.
	I collect various bits and pieces for inclusion in 2.4

Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> [5 feb 2002]
	I am NOT a fs subsystem maintainer. But I won't kill
	you if you send me some generic fs bug reports and (hopefully) patches

Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org> [5 feb 2002]
	I am IDE guy.

Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> [5 feb 2002]
	Send VM related bug reports and patches to me

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br> [5 feb 2002]
	?

Dave Jones <davej@suse.de> [5 feb 2002]
	I collect various bits and pieces for inclusion in 2.5,
	espesially small and trivial ones and driver updates. Do not bother
	Linus with them. I'll feed them to Linus when (and if) they
	are proved to be worthy.

David S. Miller <davem@redhat.com> [5 feb 2002]
	?

Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> [5 feb 2002]
	Send kernel configuration bug reports and suggestions to me.
	Also I'll be more than happy to accept help enties for kernel config
	options for Configure.help

Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> [5 feb 2002]
	?

GИrard Roudier <groudier@free.fr> [5 feb 2002]
	I am SCSI guy

H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> [5 feb 2002]
	?

Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com> [5 feb 2002]
	ReiserFS is my favorite toy

Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> [5 feb 2002]
	New scheduler in 2.5 and Tux are mine

James Simmons <jsimmons@transvirtual.com> [5 feb 2002]
	Console and framebuffer sybsustems

Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com> [5 feb 2002]
	?

Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> [5 feb 2002]
	I am block device subsystem maintainer

Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au> [5 feb 2002]
	ksymoops, kbuild, .. .. .. .. .  are mine

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> [5 feb 2002]
	Do not send anything to me unless it is for 2.5, well tested,
	discussed on lkml and is used by significant number of people.
	In general it is a bad idea to send me small fixes and driver
	updates, send them to subsystem maintainers and/or
	"small stuff" integrator (currently Dave Jones, see his entry)
	Sorry, I can't do everything.

Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br> [5 feb 2002]
	Do not send anything to me unless it is for 2.4 and well tested.
	If you are sending me small fixes and driver updates, send
	a copy to subsystem maintainers and/or "small stuff" integrator
	(currently Alan Cox, see his entry).

Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> [5 feb 2002]
	Send me VM related stuff

Robert Love <rml@tech9.net> [5 feb 2002]
	Preemptible kernel is mine

Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> [5 feb 2002]
	?

Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> [5 feb 2002]
	?

Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> [5 feb 2002]
	I am NFS maintainer

Re: [RFC] List of maintainers (draft #2)

[James Simmons]

> James Simmons <jsimmons@transvirtual.com> [5 feb 2002]
> 	Console and framebuffer sybsustems

Correct. Don't forget Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>. He also
is the maintainer of the framebuffer system plus a bunch of other things.
I also play around with the input layer.

Re: [RFC] List of maintainers (draft #2)

[Mike Fedyk]

On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 12:08:14PM -0200, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> David S. Miller <davem@redhat.com> [5 feb 2002]

I am Sparc64 (32?) and Main networking core maintainer.

> Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> [5 feb 2002]
> 	?

I am USB Maintainer.

> H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> [5 feb 2002]
> 	?

Kernel.org sysadmin.  Contact me if you notice something breaks, or if you
want a change make sure you give me at least 1-2 weeks...

==================

I'm just filling in a couple blanks from memory.  If someone else has better
information, use that instead.

Mike

Re: [RFC] List of maintainers (draft #2)

[Dave Jones]

On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 11:33:00AM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote:

 > > H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> [5 feb 2002]
 > > 	?
 > Kernel.org sysadmin.  Contact me if you notice something breaks, or if you
 > want a change make sure you give me at least 1-2 weeks...

 hpa also maintains a handful of drivers/core code.
 MAINTAINERS actually lists this, but I guess that would be too
 obvious a place to look 8-)

-- 
| Dave Jones.        http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
| SuSE Labs

Re: [RFC] List of maintainers (draft #2)

[Andreas Dilger]

On Feb 06, 2002  11:33 -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 12:08:14PM -0200, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> > H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> [5 feb 2002]
> 
> Kernel.org sysadmin.  Contact me if you notice something breaks, or if you
> want a change make sure you give me at least 1-2 weeks...

Also bootloader, kernel init code, i386 feature code.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/

Re: [RFC] List of maintainers (draft #2)

[H. Peter Anvin]

Followup to:  <20020206193300.GA314@mis-mike-wstn>
By author:    Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> > H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> [5 feb 2002]
> > 	?
> 
> Kernel.org sysadmin.  Contact me if you notice something breaks, or if you
> want a change make sure you give me at least 1-2 weeks...
> 

For kernel.org sysadmin stuff, contact <ftpadmin@kernel.org>, not me
directly.  I might be the ringleader, but I'm not the only actor, and
I'm *trying* to get rid of as much as possible :)

	-hpa
-- 
<hpa@transmeta.com> at work, <hpa@zytor.com> in private!
"Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot."
http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/puzzle.txt	<amsp@zytor.com>

Re: [RFC] List of maintainers (draft #2)

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 11:33:00AM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 12:08:14PM -0200, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> > David S. Miller <davem@redhat.com> [5 feb 2002]
> 
> I am Sparc64 (32?) and Main networking core maintainer.
> 
> > Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> [5 feb 2002]
> > 	?
> 
> I am USB Maintainer.

As well as the PCI Hotplug maintainer :)

But Denis, you never answered my previous questions about this list.
Are you going to?

thanks,

greg k-h

Re: [RFC] List of maintainers (draft #2)

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 09:26:11AM -0200, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> On 6 February 2002 19:07, Greg KH wrote:
> >
> > But Denis, you never answered my previous questions about this list.
> > Are you going to?
> 
> Oh my! What questions?

These questions:
	http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=101293255522412

thanks,

greg k-h

Re: [RFC] List of maintainers (draft #2)

[Denis Vlasenko]

On 6 February 2002 17:33, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 12:08:14PM -0200, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> > David S. Miller <davem@redhat.com> [5 feb 2002]
>
> I am Sparc64 (32?) and Main networking core maintainer.
>
> > Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> [5 feb 2002]
> > 	?
>
> I am USB Maintainer.
>
> > H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> [5 feb 2002]
> > 	?
>
> Kernel.org sysadmin.  Contact me if you notice something breaks, or if you
> want a change make sure you give me at least 1-2 weeks...
>
> I'm just filling in a couple blanks from memory.  If someone else has
> better information, use that instead.

Thanks. I'll use it but eventually I hope to hear from people directly
to avoid any possible misunderstanding.
--
vda

Re: [RFC] List of maintainers (draft #2)

[Denis Vlasenko]

On 6 February 2002 19:07, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 11:33:00AM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 12:08:14PM -0200, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> > > David S. Miller <davem@redhat.com> [5 feb 2002]
> >
> > I am Sparc64 (32?) and Main networking core maintainer.
> >
> > > Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> [5 feb 2002]
> > > 	?
> >
> > I am USB Maintainer.
>
> As well as the PCI Hotplug maintainer :)
>
> But Denis, you never answered my previous questions about this list.
> Are you going to?

Oh my! What questions? It seems we may have a mail transport problem...
Can you send me a test message?
--
vda

Re: [RFC] List of maintainers (draft #2)

[Maksim Krasnyanskiy]

Hi Denis,

I though I asked you to include me on that list.
Anyway here it is again.

Maksim Krasnyanskiy <maxk@qualcomm.com)
         Universal TUN/TAP driver author / maintainer
         Bluetooth subsytem (BlueZ) author / maintainer

Thanks
Max

>After recent discussion on Linux development practices I think it may be
>worthy to have list of lk maintainers. Unlike one included into kernel
>source, this document is meant to be monthly (weekly?) mailed to lkml
>and to be modified whenever new victim wishes to be listed in it
>or someone can no longer devote his time to maintainer work.
>
>This is a draft. I picked some names and addresses and made entried for them.
>If you want to be in this list, mail me your corrected entry. Please indicate
>what kind of reports you wish to receive and what kind of reports you DON'T
>want to see.
>
>I want these entries to sound like "Hey, I am working on these parts of the
>kernel, if you have something, send it to me not to Linus". With precise
>indication of those parts and your level of involvement:
>
>If you don't want to be in this list, mail me too - I'll remove your entry.
>
>Note that English isn't my native language, feel free to correct any mistakes.
>--
>vda
>
>* * * * DRAFT * * * *
>
>So, you are new to Linux kernel hacking and want to submit a kernel bug
>report but don't know how to do it and _where_ to report it?
>
>Preparing bug report:
>=====================
>Oops: decode it with ksymoops
>Unkillable process: Alt-SysRq-T and ksymoops relevant part
>(yes it means you should have ksymoops installed and tested!)
>
>Sending bug report/patch:
>=========================
>* It never hurts to send to Linux kernel mailing list.
>* Some device drivers have active developers, try to contact them first
>* Otherwise find a subsystem maintainer to which your report pertains
>   and send report to his address.
>* Small fixes and device driver updates are best directed to subsystem
>   maintainers and "small bits" integrators.
>* Do not send it to all addresses at once! This will annoy lots of people
>   and isn't useful at all.
>* Do NOT send it to Linus.
>* If your patch is something big and new, announce it on lkml and try
>   to attract testers. After it has been tested and discussed, you can
>   expect Linus to consider inclusion in mainline.
>
>Note that this list is sorted in reversed date order, most recent entries
>first. This means than entries at bottom can be outdated :-(
>
>
>                 Current Linux kernel people
>
>Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> [05 feb 2002]
>         Post anything related to Linux kernel here, but nothing else :-)
>
>Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca> [5 feb 2002]
>         I maintain devfs. I want people to Cc: me when reporting devfs
>         problems, since I don't read all messages on linux-kernel.
>         Send devfs related patches to me directly, rather than
>         bypassing me and sending to Linus/Marcelo/Alan/Dave etc.
>
>Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au> [05 feb 2002]
>         I'm receptive to any reproducible bug anywhere in the 2.4 kernel.
>         Specialising in ext2, ext3 and network drivers.
>         Not thinking about 2.5.x at this time.
>
>Petr Vandrovec <vandrove@vc.cvut.cz> [05 feb 2002]
>         ncpfs filesystem, matrox framebuffer driver, problems related
>         to VMware - in all of 2.2.x, 2.4.x and 2.5.x.
>
>Reiserfs developers list <reiserfs-dev@namesys.com> [05 feb 2002]
>         Send all reiserfs-related stuff here including but not limited to bug
>         reports, fixes, suggestions
>
>Oleg Drokin <green@linuxhacker.ru> [05 feb 2002]
>         SA11x0 USB-ethernet and SA11x0 watchdog are mine
>
>Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@ucw.cz> [05 feb 2002]
>         Feel free to send me bug reports and patches to input device drivers
>         (drivers/input/*, drivers/char/joystick/*)
>         I also want to receive bug reports and patches for following
>         USB drivers: printer, acm, catc, hid*, usbmouse, usbkbd, wacom.
>         All other (not in the list) USB driver changes should go to USB
>         maintainer (hopefully there is one listed here :-).
>         Also CC me if you are posting VIA IDE driver related message
>         (although I am not IDE subsystem maintainer).
>
>======= I am waiting confirmation from these people ========
>
>Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> [5 feb 2002]
>         I am 2.2 maintainer.
>         I collect various bits and pieces for inclusion in 2.4
>
>Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> [5 feb 2002]
>         I am NOT a fs subsystem maintainer. But I won't kill
>         you if you send me some generic fs bug reports and (hopefully) 
> patches
>
>Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org> [5 feb 2002]
>         I am IDE guy.
>
>Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> [5 feb 2002]
>         Send VM related bug reports and patches to me
>
>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br> [5 feb 2002]
>         ?
>
>Dave Jones <davej@suse.de> [5 feb 2002]
>         I collect various bits and pieces for inclusion in 2.5,
>         espesially small and trivial ones and driver updates. Do not bother
>         Linus with them. I'll feed them to Linus when (and if) they
>         are proved to be worthy.
>
>David S. Miller <davem@redhat.com> [5 feb 2002]
>         ?
>
>Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> [5 feb 2002]
>         Send kernel configuration bug reports and suggestions to me.
>         Also I'll be more than happy to accept help enties for kernel config
>         options for Configure.help
>
>Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> [5 feb 2002]
>         ?
>
>Gérard Roudier <groudier@free.fr> [5 feb 2002]
>         I am SCSI guy
>
>H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> [5 feb 2002]
>         ?
>
>Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com> [5 feb 2002]
>         ReiserFS is my favorite toy
>
>Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> [5 feb 2002]
>         New scheduler in 2.5 and Tux are mine
>
>James Simmons <jsimmons@transvirtual.com> [5 feb 2002]
>         Console and framebuffer sybsustems
>
>Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com> [5 feb 2002]
>         ?
>
>Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> [5 feb 2002]
>         I am block device subsystem maintainer
>
>Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au> [5 feb 2002]
>         ksymoops, kbuild, .. .. .. .. .  are mine
>
>Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> [5 feb 2002]
>         Do not send anything to me unless it is for 2.5, well tested,
>         discussed on lkml and is used by significant number of people.
>         In general it is a bad idea to send me small fixes and driver
>         updates, send them to subsystem maintainers and/or
>         "small stuff" integrator (currently Dave Jones, see his entry)
>         Sorry, I can't do everything.
>
>Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br> [5 feb 2002]
>         Do not send anything to me unless it is for 2.4 and well tested.
>         If you are sending me small fixes and driver updates, send
>         a copy to subsystem maintainers and/or "small stuff" integrator
>         (currently Alan Cox, see his entry).
>
>Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> [5 feb 2002]
>         Send me VM related stuff
>
>Robert Love <rml@tech9.net> [5 feb 2002]
>         Preemptible kernel is mine
>
>Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> [5 feb 2002]
>         ?
>
>Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> [5 feb 2002]
>         ?
>
>Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> [5 feb 2002]
>         I am NFS maintainer
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Re: [RFC] List of maintainers (draft #2)

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo]

Em Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 10:14:11AM -0800, Maksim Krasnyanskiy escreveu:
> >Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br> [5 feb 2002]
> >        ?

IPX, Cyclom2x, and soon (I hope) LLC and after that NetBEUI.

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