Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Fri, 17 Aug 2018 15:35:15 -0700 | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] 9p updates for 4.19 |
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On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 2:37 PM Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org> wrote: > > I thought the the same thing (that you never saw the first version) when > I wrote the request-pull email and adjusted the text -- I wasn't aware > the tag should have the same text as the mail but will pay attention to > that in the future, it does make sense.
The tag doesn't have to have the same text, it's just that when you send it to me, and I get a message saying "this is the second version", and I haven't seen a first one, that makes me go "Hmm."
> > And it comes from a github address, with a pgp key that I've not seen > > before, and without me having been told about said maintainership > > updates. And while the key has a lot of signatures, none of them are > > any that I have recognized previously from kernel development. > > I agree on this point, and will have a different key with at least some > kernel developers signatures for 4.20
I don't reall yneed to absolutely have some signature chain for the keys - but I do want to know that it's not some maintainership fight brewing, and I'd *really* like to see explicit acknowledgement from people about this all.
The pgp signature is useful even without the chain of other people signing it, since it's still going to mean (going forward) that the same person who controls the key is sending me pull requests. So it's worth it even without the absolute chain.
But the first time I pull is special. For me, the MAINTAINERS file currently still says
[torvalds@i7 linux]$ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl fs/9p/ Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> (maintainer:9P FILE SYSTEM) Ron Minnich <rminnich@sandia.gov> (maintainer:9P FILE SYSTEM) Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net> (maintainer:9P FILE SYSTEM) v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net (open list:9P FILE SYSTEM) linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)
and I realize that in practice it's been not very maintained and most of the patches have just been going through Andrew (actually, _most_ patches haven't really been about 9p at all, but have been about updating 9p for non-9p work).
So I would basically want to see Andrew and/or others be on record of saying "yup, this looks good, go ahead and pull from Dominique".
Then, next time you send me a pull request, it will be "all systems normal", and I won't care about who has signed your key, I'll care a lot more about "it's the same key as the last time, or at least the new key is signed by the old key I already recognize for 9p".
That's the main issue for me.
Linus
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