Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 Nov 2020 11:46:27 +0100 | From | Maxime Ripard <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add myself as arm sunxi soc maintainer |
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Hi,
On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 03:00:02PM +0800, Frank Lee wrote: > From: Yangtao Li <frank@allwinnertech.com> > > Add myself to sunxi maintainer so the mail can cc me. > > Signed-off-by: Yangtao Li <frank@allwinnertech.com>
Unfortunately, this is not really the process for doing so, and being in Cc of the patches isn't what a maintainer is about either.
To become a maintainer (if there's already a maintainer team in place) you usually get asked by the current team to join them. This is what we did a couple of weeks ago with Jernej for example: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20201009074423.10708-1-maxime@cerno.tech/
You would be asked to join the team based on a number of criteria, but usually that would be because:
- You've been here long enough that the team knows that it can rely on you to stick around for some time;
- Over that period of time, you've helped maintaining the platform already, which means that you've helped solving the current bugs and / or issues, done some new development, reviewed a significant number of patches, etc.;
- You're getting quite familiar with the kernel development process;
I guess eventually, we definitely want you involved, but we're not quite there yet.
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