Re: [RFC PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Cover the firmware JSON schema

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

On Fri, Jul 03, 2020 at 06:58:45PM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> On 07/03/20 18:18, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 03, 2020 at 06:14:53PM +0200, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> >> Add an entry to cover firmware.json (see commit 3a0adfc9bf:
> >> schema that describes the different uses and properties of
> >> virtual machine firmware).
> >> Cc the libvirt maintainers if it ever changes.
> >>
> >> Cc: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
> >> Cc: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
> >> Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
> >> Cc: Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com>
> >> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> >> Suggested-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
> >> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
> >> ---
> >> Based on a comment from Laszlo:
> >> https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg604925.html
> >>
> >> I don't think Laszlo should be the sole maintainer, not sure
> >> who else should be listed. Gerd and Kashyap? :)
> >> Can we add it 'maintained' without specific maintainer?
> >> ---
> >>  MAINTAINERS | 6 ++++++
> >>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> >> index dec252f38b..57c90201df 100644
> >> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> >> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> >> @@ -2601,6 +2601,12 @@ F: include/hw/i2c/smbus_master.h
> >>  F: include/hw/i2c/smbus_slave.h
> >>  F: include/hw/i2c/smbus_eeprom.h
> >>  
> >> +Firmware schema specifications
> >> +M: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
> >> +R: libvir-list@redhat.com
> > 
> > FWIW, I don't think libvirt needs to review this. Our firmware handling
> > code doesn't really care what specific files exist - it just follows the
> > declared logic to pick amongst whatever exists.
> 
> I request that
> 
> - Phil be listed please as another maintainer (so there are two people
> that can send pull requests, if a 3rd person needs to patch this file
> for whatever reason),
> 
> - Dan be listed please *at least* as an "R" person; the business logic
> written up under the @Firmware element, and lots of the initial review
> comments (in particular the suggestion to mention specific QEMU command
> line switches in the schema), had come from him.
> 
> If Dan is willing to be an "M", then we can collapse both of my above
> requests into one, and Phil wouldn't have to be listed (Dan could both
> review suggested changes and submit pull requests). However, I'm raising
> this only as a technical possibility; what really matters to me is that
> Dan be CC'd on suggested changes, and that someone other than me can
> submit PRs if necessary.

I'm fine with "R", but don't want to be "M" as I don't want to be
responsible for queueing patches, etc on more parts of QEMU.

Regards,
Daniel
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