Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 10/12] MAINTAINERS: Orphanize the 'CPU (QOM)' subsystem

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 10:22:39PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 18/12/18 20:13, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 06:15:06PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> >> On 18/12/18 16:57, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> >>> On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 04:44:25PM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote:
> >>>> On 2018-12-18 16:31, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> >>>>> Hi Paolo, Eduardo,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On 12/18/18 4:22 PM, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> >>>>>> On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 01:34:52PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> >>>>>>> On 18/12/18 12:56, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> >>>>>>>> Nobody is looking at those files, downgrade this subsystem as orphan.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Remove the qemu-devel@nongnu.org entry because the list is always
> >>>>>>>> selected by the 'All patches CC here' section.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Suggested-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
> >>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
> >>>>>>>> ---
> >>>>>>>>  MAINTAINERS | 3 +--
> >>>>>>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> >>>>>>>> index e50f8c6b97..e6a73820f1 100644
> >>>>>>>> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> >>>>>>>> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> >>>>>>>> @@ -1745,8 +1745,7 @@ S: Supported
> >>>>>>>>  F: scripts/coverity-model.c
> >>>>>>>>  
> >>>>>>>>  CPU
> >>>>>>>> -L: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
> >>>>>>>> -S: Supported
> >>>>>>>> +S: Orphan
> >>>>>>>>  F: qom/cpu.c
> >>>>>>>>  F: include/qom/cpu.h
> >>>>>>>>  
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> I don't think that's accurate.  Simply there's not much going on.  If
> >>>>>>> patches are sent, get-maintainers's git fallback will do something
> >>>>>>> (probably sending the patch to Eduardo, Igor or me).
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I followed Markus suggestion from
> >>>>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-11/msg05414.html:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>   If we take the definition of S: in MAINTAINERS seriously,
> >>>>>   we need to appoint a maintainer (a person, not a mailing list),
> >>>>>   or downgrade to S: Orphan.
> >>>>
> >>>> I agree with Markus and Philippe. Having "S: Supported" but no names
> >>>> available is just confusing. So either put a maintainer name in here, or
> >>>> downgrade to "Orphan".
> >>>
> >>> I volunteer to maintain it, but I don't want to be the only
> >>> maintainer.  Any other volunteer?
> >>
> >> I can volunteer since I'd take the patches anyway.  We can also mark it
> >> as Odd Fixes, and also make it a single thing with all of qom/ and
> >> include/qom/.
> > 
> > Actually, I consider qom/cpu.c distinct from QOM core, and I was
> > planning to move it to hw/cpu, and add hw/cpu/core.c to the same
> > section.
> > 
> > Anyway, I guess this means you're also volunteering to be listed
> > as QOM maintainer?
> 
> Igor and Daniel, would you co-maintain or review it?

I'm fine being listed as a manitainer for qom/, agree with moving
qom/cpu.c to hw/cpu, as I was going to suggest that myself :-)


Regards,
Daniel
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