[Mesa-dev] [RFC] add MAINTAINERS and get_maintainer.pl script

[Daniel Stone]

Hi,

On 2 May 2016 at 11:44, Rob Clark <robdclark at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 2:15 AM, Michel Dänzer <michel at daenzer.net> wrote:
>> So, what is this based on? Maybe I'm not looking in the right place, but
>> out of hundreds of changes in Git touching those files, I see one change
>> from you about six months ago and five changes with a Reviewed-by: tag
>> from you over a year ago. You didn't push any changes other than your
>> own either AFAICT.
>>
>> Looking at all of Mesa yields a similar picture; that is why I
>> previously questioned your authority to NAK patches in Mesa.
>>
>> Don't get me wrong, I'm not questioning your authority on all things
>> Wayland. Your review of Wayland related patches obviously carries a lot
>> of weight. But I'd expect to see a very different footprint in the Git
>> history from somebody who calls himself maintainer.
>
> fwiw, I had debated about renaming the file 'REVIEWERS' or something
> like that, to better reflect it's purpose (ie. it is more about
> finding the right people to CC to get reviews, rather than absolute
> 'maintainers' (like it is in the linux kernel).  I'd left the name
> since I thought that would be less confusing.  But maybe I should
> change it..

That's exactly what I meant, rather than a land grab on authority. But
if you're unhappy having my name there, then just remove it; it just
increases the odds that I'll miss relevant patches in the swamp of
hundreds of patches to drivers I don't have any dealings with.

And if this is some kind of proxy argument about scanout formats, then
why not just go ahead and merge that? The only concerns came from, as
you say, someone with no grounds to comment.

Cheers,
Daniel