linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] add ptrace entry to MAINTAINERS

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Message-Id: <1239675430.32203.116.camel@localhost>
Date:	Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:17:10 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, torvalds@...l.org,
	roland@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add ptrace entry to MAINTAINERS

On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 02:42 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Christoph Hellwig <hch@....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@....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			it has been replaced by a better system and you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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