From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NFnE6-0002mr-HW for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:18:30 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NFnE1-0002iU-4s for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:18:29 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49317 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NFnE0-0002iD-Rh for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:18:24 -0500 Received: from mail-fx0-f217.google.com ([209.85.220.217]:32898) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NFnE0-0000hv-BB for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:18:24 -0500 Received: by fxm9 with SMTP id 9so83425fxm.10 for ; Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:18:22 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <98EAB3C5-2581-43CE-A64D-1699D164FFCE@suse.de> References: <4B1565AD.10503@codemonkey.ws> <98EAB3C5-2581-43CE-A64D-1699D164FFCE@suse.de> Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 12:18:22 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Unclear committer situation From: andrzej zaborowski Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Alexander Graf Cc: Blue Swirl , qemu-devel@nongnu.org 2009/12/1 Alexander Graf : > Maintainership for a subsystem is completely different from "feeling resp= onsible for patches". You can be the person checking stuff in without knowi= ng anything about the subsystem. If it breaks, have the community fix it. I= f it stays broken and nobody cares, remove the subsystem. If it leads to removing the subsystem then it's not much gain for the project and the users :) I don't know of any succesful project that has maintainers who don't feel responsible for the code they're comming. Cheers