Re: [PATCH] Add Connor Kuehl as reviewer for AMD SEV

[Connor Kuehl <ckuehl@redhat.com>]

On 6/8/21 3:45 PM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
>> Right, I am just worried that if I am the only person that shows up in
>> the get_maintainer.pl output, the submitter will have to know some other
>> way who a relevant maintainer is that can take the patches otherwise
>> they won't be CC'd. Or we'll have to hope a relevant maintainer sees
>> them on the list. Or I'll have to chase down a maintainer myself
>> assuming the reviews all check out. :-)
> 
> Well there's no real guarantee that any of the previous committers will
> take the patch even if they are listed by get_maintainer. This is typical
> with anything lacking a maintainer assigned. We typically hope that
> whoever runs the "misc" queue sees the patch and picks it up, but often
> it requires pings to remind someone to pick it up.
> 
> The only real right answer here is to actually get someone as the
> nominated maintainer. Every other scenario is a just a band aid and
> is not a good experiance for contributors. A nominated reviewer is
> usually hoped to be a stepping stone to someone becoming maintainer
> in future, so in that sense the fact that only you will be cc'd is
> sort of intentional :-)

That makes perfect sense. I'll forge on ahead, then :-)

Thanks!

Connor