From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>,
Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] scripts/get_maintainer.pl: allow "odd fixes"
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 10:07:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <544765D8.9020706@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141022080844.GA4789@redhat.com>
On 10/22/2014 10:08 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>> >
>> > 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.
> OK but this is not what MAINTAINERS says:
>
>
> Odd Fixes: It has a maintainer but they don't have time to do
> much other than throw the odd patch in. See below.
>
>
> I don't know what "See below" refers to.
> But it does seem to imply maintainers don't have time to
> review patches, so at some level, enabling fallback in
> this case seems to make sense.
To me it means that I have time to review patches, but not to do my own
work on it.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-22 8:08 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
2014-10-22 8:08 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-10-22 8:07 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
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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