Re: [PATCH v2] MAINTAINERS: Merge the Gitlab-CI section into the generic CI section

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

On 08/03/2021 17.35, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> On 3/8/21 4:46 PM, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> The status of the gitlab-CI files is currently somewhat confusing, and
>> it is often not quite clear whether a patch should go via my tree or
>> via the testing tree of Alex. That situation has grown historically...
>> Initially, I was the only one using the gitlab-CI, just for my private
>> repository there. But in the course of time, the gitlab-CI switched to
>> use the containers from tests/docker/ (which is not part of the gitlab-CI
>> section in the MAINTAINERS file), and QEMU now even switched to gitlab.com
>> completely for the repository and will soon use it as its gating CI, too,
>> so it makes way more sense if the gitlab-ci.yml files belong to the people
>> who are owning the qemu-project on gitlab.com and take care of the gitlab
>> CI there. Thus let's merge the gitlab-ci section into the common "test and
>> build automation" section.
>>
>> While we're at it, I'm also removing the line with Fam there for now,
>> since he was hardly active during the last years in this area anymore.
>> If he ever gets more time for this part again in the future, we surely
>> can add the line back again.
>>
>> Now to avoid that Alex is listed here alone, Philippe and I agreed to
>> help as backup maintainers here, too.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
>> ---
>>   v2: Keep Philippe and myself as maintainer instead of reviewer
>>
>>   MAINTAINERS | 21 +++++++--------------
>>   1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
>> index 26c9454823..5c4c179abb 100644
>> --- a/MAINTAINERS
>> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
>> @@ -3262,17 +3262,21 @@ F: include/hw/remote/iohub.h
>>   
>>   Build and test automation
>>   -------------------------
>> -Build and test automation
>> +Build and test automation, Linux Continuous Integration
> 
> I'd rather not limit it to Linux hosts...
> 
>>   M: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
>> -M: Fam Zheng <fam@euphon.net>
> 
> I'm not sure about Fam removal, he is the one maintaining patchew
> (see [*] below)... Maybe we need an Ack from Paolo?

We could split the Patchew part into a separate section... OTOH, there are 
no patchew related files in the main git repo anyway that we track in the 
MAINTAINERS file, so maybe it makes more sense to simply remove that line? 
(Patchew admins are already mentioned here: 
https://wiki.qemu.org/AdminContacts )

  Thomas