[Mesa-dev] [PATCH libdrm] Add basic CONTRIBUTING file

Eric Engestrom eric.engestrom at intel.com
Tue Sep 4 09:02:40 UTC 2018


On Tuesday, 2018-09-04 16:24:44 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Sep 2018 at 18:47, Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch> wrote:
> >
> > I picked up a bunch of the pieces from wayland's version:
> >
> > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
> >
> > The weston one is fairly similar. Then I rather massively trimmed it
> > down since in reality libdrm is a bit a dumping ground with very few
> > real rules. The commit rights and CoC sections I've copied verbatim
> > from igt respectively drm-misc. Weston/Wayland only differ in their
> > pick of how many patches you need (10 instead of 5). I think for
> > libdrm this is supremely relevant, since most everyone will get their
> > commit rights by contributing already to the kernel or mesa and having
> > commit rights there already.
> >
> > Anyway, I figured this is good to get the rules documented, even if
> > there's mostly not many rules.
> >
> > Note: This references maintainers in a MAINTAINERS file, which needs
> > to be created first.
> >
> > Note: With the gitlab migration the entire commit rights process is
> > still a bit up in the air. But gitlab commit rights and roles are
> > hierarchical, so we can do libdrm-only maintainer/commiter roles
> > ("Owner" and "Developer" in gitlab-speak). This should avoid
> > conflating libdrm roles with mesa roles, useful for those pushing to
> > libdrm as primarily kernel contributors.
> 
> Fine with me,
> 
> Acked-by: Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com>
> 
> Dave.

I think this has gathered enough acks and rbs, you can just push it now
and if there's anything that should be adjusted we can do that as
a follow up :)


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