Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 May 2015 22:36:04 +0200 | From | Richard Weinberger <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 6/6] MAINTAINERS: maintain parport |
| |
Am 20.05.2015 um 18:33 schrieb One Thousand Gnomes: > On Wed, 20 May 2015 17:46:44 +0200 > Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 5:27 PM, Sudip Mukherjee >> <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Lets give the parport subsystem a proper name and start >>> maintaining the files. >> >> Excuse me, but usually someone takes over the maintainer role after >> proving that he >> cares for a sub system for a certain period of time. >> Or did I miss something? > > It currently (and for some time) has had no maintainer so having a > maintainer is IMHO definitely an improvement in things.
Having a maintainer is good. All I wanted to point out was that it is IMHO uncommon to claim maintainership before being the main contributor or the de facto maintainer of a subsystem.
This "rule" prevents us from "Mommy!!! Look, I'm a maintainer!!!1" patches. ;-)
Thanks, //richard
| |