[igt-dev] [RFC i-g-t 1/1] MAINTAINERS: Introduce MAINTAINERS file

[Jani Nikula]

On Thu, 03 Feb 2022, Rodrigo Siqueira Jordao <rjordrigo at amd.com> wrote:
> On 2022-02-03 6:03 a.m., Petri Latvala wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 09:28:18AM -0500, Rodrigo Siqueira wrote:
>>> IGT is growing in terms of new vendors actively using it. Right now, we
>>> only have Intel CI to validate new patches, which can create a situation
>>> where bugs get accidentally introduced to other vendors. To alleviate
>>> this problem and also making easy for other developers to be aware of
>>> some specific changes, I'm proposing the introduction of the MAINTAINERS
>>> file as the one used in the Linux kernel. With this approach, we can
>>> have multiple enginers from different companies as reviewers for
>>> specific tests, and contributors should use get_maintainers script to
>>> find the right people to address their changes.
>>>
>>> Cc: Arkadiusz Hiler <arek at hiler.eu>
>>> Cc: Petri Latvala <petri.latvala at intel.com>
>>> Cc: Mark Yacoub <markyacoub at google.com>
>>> Cc: Jessica Zhang <quic_jesszhan at quicinc.com>
>>> Cc: Abhinav Kumar <quic_abhinavk at quicinc.com>
>>> Cc: Melissa Wen <mwen at igalia.com>
>>> Cc: Sean Paul <seanpaul at chromium.org>
>>> Cc: Harry Wentland <harry.wentland at amd.com>
>>> Cc: Sun Peng Li(Leo) <sunpeng.li at amd.com>
>>> Cc: Chao-kai Wang (Stylon) <stylon.wang at amd.com>
>>> Cc: Wayne Lin <wayne.lin at amd.com>
>>> Cc: Nicholas Choi <nicholas.choi at amd.com>
>>> Cc: Martin Peres <martin.peres at mupuf.org>
>>> Cc: Aurabindo Pillai <aurabindo.pillai at amd.com>
>>> Cc: Bhawanpreet Lakha <bhawanpreet.lakha at amd.com>
>>> Cc: Qingqing Zhuo (Lilian) <qingqing.zhuo at amd.com>
>>> Cc: Solomon Chiu <solomon.chiu at amd.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Siqueira <Rodrigo.Siqueira at amd.com>
>> 
>> 
>> A tentative ack on this effort from me, for getting more contact
>> points formally documented.
>> 
>> As for the implementation of it, I know this is copied from the kernel
>> so I know the reason why they're there, but reduce the useless
>> complexity in the documentation comment like the type of version
>> control in a subtree, and things that just aren't true for IGT, like
>> asking for testing from 4 or 5 people.
>
> Hi Petri,
>
> Thanks for your feedback. I just copy-paste most parts of this kernel 
> MAINTAINERs file since this is just a prototype. I will prepare the 
> first version of this patch and submit it again; in this new version, I 
> will drop some part of the documentation which does not make sense for IGT.

FWIW, if I were to do this, I'd do it in yaml and implement it in
python+strictyaml with a schema. No need to import a monster perl parser
from kernel or implement our own.

BR,
Jani.


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Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center