Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 May 2011 10:23:44 +0200 | From | Sascha Hauer <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] ARM Subarchitecture group maintainership |
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On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 10:47:16AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > This is the draft plan for maintaining the ARM subarchitectures in a common > tree, as a way to help coordinate the upstream merging of the > arch/arm/{plat,mach}-* changes into Linus' tree. > > This was discussed in great length at the Linaro Developer Summit in Budapest > last week where we worked out an initial plan. We are modeling the maintainance > after how the linux-tip tree is used for the x86 architecture, with a set > of developers that have commit access to one tree on kernel.org and > have mutual trust in one another. Nicolas Pitre and me are funded > by Linaro to do the bulk of the work, while Thomas Gleixner will help > us part-time with his long time architecture maintainance experience. > Despite the funding by Linaro, this is not a Linaro project and all > ARM subarchitectures are welcome to go through our tree. > > Russell King's role as ARM maintainer is of course unchanged by this, but > he has the same commit access to the new tree as the other maintainers and > is welcome to work in the same tree. We are also open to nominations for > further people outside of Linaro to join us as committers. Marc Zyngier from > ARM ltd is one of the candidates that has been suggested and I would also > like to see someone from Google. We have to find the right balance with the > number of committers so we get all the work done without stepping on each > other's toes. > > Our tree will be strictly organized in topic brances so we can feed them > upstream in the bitesized chunks that Linus likes. The master branch > is an integration branch that pulls all other branches that are scheduled > for the next merge window and itself gets integrated into linux-next. > > We will probably not be fully functional during the 2.6.40 merge window, > but we are trying our best to be useful. For 2.6.41, my hope is that > we can merge the bulk of the ARM subarchitecture changes through this > tree. Once Linus is happy with the way that the process works, we can > mandate that all ARM subarchitecture changes go through our tree, until > then it stays voluntary. > > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> > Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> > Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> > Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> > Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > --- > > Maintainers: If you are happy with the layout of the process, > please ack this patch, otherwise please comment.
As Freescale i.MX maintainer:
Acked-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
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