From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=39415 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OtnYd-0004I7-Pq for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:17:20 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OtnYc-0008Ii-MZ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:17:19 -0400 Received: from mail-vw0-f45.google.com ([209.85.212.45]:48420) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OtnYc-0008Ia-Gq for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:17:18 -0400 Received: by vws19 with SMTP id 19so1801156vws.4 for ; Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:17:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C8940CA.1010604@codemonkey.ws> Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:17:14 -0500 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Update MAINTAINERS References: <1284062053-28066-1-git-send-email-aliguori@us.ibm.com> <4C893F9F.9080308@mail.berlios.de> In-Reply-To: <4C893F9F.9080308@mail.berlios.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Stefan Weil Cc: Anthony Liguori , qemu-devel@nongnu.org On 09/09/2010 03:12 PM, Stefan Weil wrote: > Am 09.09.2010 21:54, schrieb Anthony Liguori: >> The goal of this file is not to establish strict ownership of the >> code base but >> rather to provide a place for people to direct questions to and for >> names of >> people to CC on patches. > > This text should be added to MAINTAINERS. > >> I'm basing this update on my observations on how things currently >> work today. >> If you think your name should be on something and it's not, don't >> read anything >> into it and just correct me :-) >> >> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori >> >> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS >> index e5165fb..ee84f3f 100644 >> --- a/MAINTAINERS >> +++ b/MAINTAINERS >> @@ -4,13 +4,12 @@ QEMU Maintainers >> Project leaders: >> ---------------- >> >> -Fabrice Bellard >> Paul Brook >> >> -CPU cores: >> +TCG cores: >> ---------- >> >> -x86 Fabrice Bellard >> +x86 ? >> ARM Paul Brook >> SPARC Blue Swirl >> MIPS ? >> @@ -26,7 +25,7 @@ Machines (sorted by CPU): >> ------------------------- >> >> x86 >> - pc.c Fabrice Bellard (new maintainer needed) >> + pc.c Anthony Liguori >> ARM >> integratorcp.c Paul Brook >> versatilepb.c Paul Brook >> @@ -70,19 +69,20 @@ S390 >> Generic Subsystems: >> ------------------- >> >> -Dynamic translator Fabrice Bellard >> -Main loop Fabrice Bellard (new maintainer needed) >> -TCG Fabrice Bellard >> -IDE device ? >> -SCSI device Paul Brook >> +Main loop Anthony Liguori >> +TCG ? >> +KVM Marcelo Tosatti/Avi Kivity >> +Virtio devices Anthony Liguori >> +IDE devices ? >> +SCSI devices Paul Brook >> PCI layer Michael S. Tsirkin >> USB layer ? >> -Block layer ? >> -Graphic layer ? >> +Block layer Kevin Wolf >> +Graphic layer Anthony Liguori >> Audio device layer Vassili Karpov (malc) >> -Character device layer ? >> -Network device layer ? >> +Character device layer Anthony Liguori >> +Network device layer Anthony Liguori/Mark McLoughlin >> GDB stub ? >> -Linux user ? >> -Darwin user ? >> -SLIRP ? >> +Linux user Riku Voipio >> +Darwin user Unmaintained (likely to be removed) >> +SLIRP Unmaintained > > Hello Anthony, > > I feel responsible for any file with "Copyright (c) 20xx Stefan Weil" > in the header. Yeah, I'm thinking of converting to a Linux style maintainers that's more conducive to fine-grain info. Again, my intention is for people who are looking to ask for help or patch review for a particular piece of code so having more granularity is a good thing. > Maybe a general remark like this would be good: > > For individual files, there is usually a copyright owner mentioned in > the file's header. It's very often that the original copyright holder is no longer involved in the project. Hence the need for something beyond the copyright header in the first place. > In most cases, this person also maintains this file. > > (or anything similar) > > For people who don't know what "Main loop" (and the other topics) is > and also > for automated parsing (matching of files to maintainers like it is > done by the linux kernel) > additional path or filename entries would be helpful in a future version. Yes, hence the desire to move to a Linux style format. Regards, Anthony Liguori > > Regards > Stefan > >