From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NFnKR-0000Jw-4R for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:25:03 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NFnKM-0000I9-Kj for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:25:02 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53865 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NFnKL-0000Hx-Pu for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:24:58 -0500 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:56512 helo=mx2.suse.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NFnKL-0001AJ-1g for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:24:57 -0500 Message-ID: <4B164E87.7070607@suse.de> Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:24:55 +0100 From: Alexander Graf MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Unclear committer situation References: <4B1565AD.10503@codemonkey.ws> <98EAB3C5-2581-43CE-A64D-1699D164FFCE@suse.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: andrzej zaborowski Cc: Blue Swirl , qemu-devel@nongnu.org andrzej zaborowski wrote: > 2009/12/1 Alexander Graf : > >> 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