From: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
To: andrzej zaborowski <balrogg@gmail.com>
Cc: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Unclear committer situation
Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:24:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B164E87.7070607@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fb249edb0912020318h6c2bedc6kfb44de472e8436cd@mail.gmail.com>
andrzej zaborowski wrote:
> 2009/12/1 Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>:
>
>> Maintainership for a subsystem is completely different from "feeling responsible for patches". You can be the person checking stuff in without knowing anything about the subsystem. If it breaks, have the community fix it. If it stays broken and nobody cares, remove the subsystem.
>>
>
> If it leads to removing the subsystem then it's not much gain for the
> project and the users :)
>
> I don't know of any succesful project that has maintainers who don't
> feel responsible for the code they're comming.
>
Well the point I was trying to make is that committer != maintainer. Avi
commits PPC/S390 kvm stuff all the time without knowing the
architectures inside out ;).
Alex
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-02 11:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-01 11:47 [Qemu-devel] Unclear committer situation Alexander Graf
2009-12-01 18:51 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-01 19:21 ` Blue Swirl
2009-12-01 21:08 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-01 22:49 ` Alexander Graf
2009-12-02 11:18 ` andrzej zaborowski
2009-12-02 11:24 ` Alexander Graf [this message]
2009-12-02 12:38 ` Avi Kivity
2009-12-02 11:31 ` Riku Voipio
2009-12-03 14:04 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-02 8:26 ` Aurelien Jarno
2009-12-02 8:37 ` Alexander Graf
2009-12-02 8:46 ` Aurelien Jarno
2009-12-02 8:54 ` Alexander Graf
2009-12-02 21:09 ` Jan-Simon Möller
2009-12-02 9:08 ` Avi Kivity
2009-12-02 8:45 ` malc
2009-12-02 15:33 ` Artyom Tarasenko
2009-12-02 18:31 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2009-12-02 18:48 ` Artyom Tarasenko
2009-12-03 10:20 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-12-03 13:10 ` andrzej zaborowski
2009-12-02 21:18 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-03 10:07 ` Artyom Tarasenko
2009-12-02 18:40 ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2009-12-02 18:53 ` Artyom Tarasenko
2009-12-02 18:56 ` Alexander Graf
2009-12-03 9:44 ` Filip Navara
2009-12-03 14:19 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-02 19:12 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-03 9:20 ` Riku Voipio
2009-12-03 12:56 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2009-12-03 14:40 ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-12-05 0:25 ` [Qemu-devel] " Isaku Yamahata
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