Re: [Qemu-devel] [Process] QEMU submaintainers and pull requests

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

On 16/02/2018 16:03, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 16 February 2018 at 14:53, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
>> On 16/02/2018 12:25, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>> On 16 February 2018 at 11:18, Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com> wrote:
>>> The block folks are already doing this, so we should just
>>> formalize what they're doing at the moment I guess. From my point
>>> of view as long as there's something I can easily filter
>>> in/out in the email body or subject so I don't get confused
>>> (and which doesn't require me to update my filters every time
>>> a new subsystem switches to using submaintainer pulls!)
>>> I don't mind about the rest of it. Maybe a subject line with
>>> 'PULL SUBSYSTEM s390x' (ditto block, etc etc) ?
>>
>> What about just requiring you to be in the "To" or "Cc" fields?  That
>> works pretty well for Linux.
> 
> It would require existing submaintainers to change their process,
> though -- currently not all pull requests are to/cc me.

Yeah, but that would not be too hard.  There are only about 40
maintainers, and if anybody misses the news they would notice fairly
quickly. :)

BTW, Fam and I are also planning to improve Patchew so that it is better
at detecting pull requests and especially merged pull requests.

Thanks,

Paolo