Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] add ptrace entry to MAINTAINERS | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:17:10 -0700 |
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On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 02:42 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote: > > > At the LF collab summit we decided to make Roland official ptrace > > maintainer not just the defacto one he has been for a couple of years > > now. > > > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> > > Hm, what is this "LF collab summit" that makes decisions in terms of > who maintains what? Some new buerocracy on top of Linux i have not > heard about yet? :)
I think the MAINTAINERS file could use a new status type.
These are the status types today:
Supported: Someone is actually paid to look after this. Maintained: Someone actually looks after it. Odd Fixes: It has a maintainer but they don't have time to do much other than throw the odd patch in. See below.. Orphan: No current maintainer [but maybe you could take the role as you write your new code]. Obsolete: Old code. Something tagged obsolete generally means it has been replaced by a better system and you should be using that.
Maybe it'd be useful to have a defined aggregator/overseer/gatekeeper role.
Basically what Greg Kroah-Hartman does for staging and David Miller does for driver/net
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