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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
	Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>,
	Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] scripts/get_maintainer.pl: allow "odd fixes"
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 09:45:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54476089.7020402@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141022072204.GA28193@redhat.com>

On 10/22/2014 09:22 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> Actually, it does not ignore that.
> What it does it list status as "odd fixer".
> 
> So this boils down to the fact that we use
> "odd fixer" incorrectly.
> 
> I will apply this for now but maybe we should
> change MAINTAINERS switching all "Odd fixes" to
> "Maintained" and then revert this patch.
> 
> Thoughts?

To me "odd fixes" means I may help shepherding your patches into the
tree, but I would rather revert a buggy patch than fix it.  And unless
they're trivial or egregious, I would not spend much time on bug
reports.  It just sets expectations right.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-22  7:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-21 11:35 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] scripts/get_maintainer.pl: allow "odd fixes" Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-10-21 16:55 ` Don Slutz
2014-10-22  7:22 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-10-22  7:45   ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2014-10-22  8:08     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-10-22  8:07       ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-10-22  8:13         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-10-22  8:18           ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-10-22  7:47   ` Markus Armbruster
2014-10-22  7:58     ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-10-22  8:07       ` Markus Armbruster

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