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> > Since the topic has come up, what is the process for vetting a
> > maintainer?
>=20
> Well, I can tell you the process I went through in becoming a
> co-maintainer for the ARM target (about a year or so ago now).
> Basically I started out by doing a bunch of work that seemed
> to need doing and that nobody else was doing at the time:
>  * submitting patches to fix various bugs
>  * reviewing patches other people sent to the list
>  * generally taking part in discussions on list and irc
>  * collecting up patches and making sure they didn't get
>    forgotten
>  * progressing to putting together a tree and starting to
>    send pull-request emails
> and about the last thing was getting the MAINTAINERS file
> changed to add my name.
> If there was a formal vetting process I didn't notice it :-)

  This could be put on wiki page so that people who want to be a
maintainer know what they should do. :)

Regards,
chenwj

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Computer Systems Lab, Institute of Information Science,
Academia Sinica, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
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