[PATCH] [RFC] MAINTAINERS: Daniel for drm co-maintainer

Sean Paul sean at poorly.run
Wed Dec 12 15:45:48 UTC 2018


On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 11:30:01AM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> lkml and Linus gained a CoC, and it's serious this time. Which means
> my no 1 reason for declining to officially step up as drm maintainer
> is gone, and I didn't find any new good excuse.
> 
> I chatted with a few people in private already, and the biggest
> concern is that I mislay my community hat and start running around
> with my intel hat only. Or some other convenient abuse of trust.
> 
> That's why this patch doesn't just need a lot of acks that mean "yeah
> seems fine to me", but a lot of acks that mean "yeah we'll tell you
> when you're over the line and usurp you from that comfy chair if you
> don't get it".

Hang on, I didn't get a comfy chair when I signed up for drm-misc! I guess
that's only for top-level maintainers, huh? ;-)


> Which I think we've been done a fairly good job here at
> dri-devel in general, but better to be clear.

Completely agree, I have 0 doubts.

Acked-by: Sean Paul <sean at poorly.run>

> 
> Rough idea is that I'll do this for maybe 2-3 years, helping Dave
> figure out a group model for drm overall. And getting the tooling and
> infrastructure for that off the ground. Then step down again because
> some other shiny thing that needs chasing. Of course as plans tend to
> do, this one will probably pan out a bit different in reality.
> 
> Cc: David Airlie <airlied at linux.ie>
> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at intel.com>
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 7e05aa20b0ab..2c4cd038df2a 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -4849,6 +4849,7 @@ F:	include/uapi/drm/vmwgfx_drm.h
>  
>  DRM DRIVERS
>  M:	David Airlie <airlied at linux.ie>
> +M:	Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch>
>  L:	dri-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
>  T:	git git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm
>  B:	https://bugs.freedesktop.org/
> -- 
> 2.20.0.rc1
> 
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Sean Paul, Software Engineer, Google / Chromium OS


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