From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53290) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dg8iI-0007gd-5k for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 11 Aug 2017 08:06:51 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dg8iF-0006A6-0K for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 11 Aug 2017 08:06:50 -0400 References: <20170728053610.15770-1-f4bug@amsat.org> <20170728053610.15770-19-f4bug@amsat.org> <87mv7aumav.fsf@linaro.org> <8e2e3aa5-4459-76ba-3309-af6b30220346@amsat.org> <87fud0vmak.fsf@linaro.org> <3e66742f-04c5-51b7-de3a-f692c0637bc5@amsat.org> <20170810104604.342af354.cohuck@redhat.com> <20170810122520.48403984.cohuck@redhat.com> <20170811075455.GC27391@lemon.lan> From: Paolo Bonzini Message-ID: <1ac44263-dc9a-b16e-df10-09253b566b1b@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 14:06:29 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20170811075455.GC27391@lemon.lan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 18/47] MAINTAINERS: add missing TCG entry List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Fam Zheng , Cornelia Huck Cc: Peter Maydell , =?UTF-8?Q?Philippe_Mathieu-Daud=c3=a9?= , =?UTF-8?Q?Alex_Benn=c3=a9e?= , Eric Blake , Richard Henderson , QEMU Trivial , QEMU Developers , Markus Armbruster , "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" On 11/08/2017 09:54, Fam Zheng wrote: > On Thu, 08/10 12:25, Cornelia Huck wrote: >>> I think the UI (giving no consideration to how we might implement >>> this!) would ideally be something like: >>> * if anybody mails a patch which touches an "unmaintained" file, >>> a robot should send a reply along the lines of "thanks for the >>> patch; unfortunately file X is not maintained so it may be >>> tricky to get patch review for this. You'll need to be >>> persistent and do more of the legwork than if you were patching >>> a file that did have an active maintainer" so contributors >>> know when they've wandered into the swamp >> >> That's a good idea. >> >>> * some mechanism for easily finding patches to unmaintained >>> files which haven't got review yet, so that anybody with some >>> spare time and interest can move some of them along (the idea >>> being to spread the load rather than trying to designate a >>> particular "owner" for this headache) >> >> Can maybe patchew set a special flag for patches that only touch >> unmaintained files? > > Interesting idea. We have a number of patch status tracking feature requests for > patchew already. We can tackle them one by one. (The next priority is implement > "merged".) Do you use github issues? Paolo