linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6/6] MAINTAINERS: maintain parport

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Message-ID: <555CF034.5090704@nod.at>
Date:	Wed, 20 May 2015 22:36:04 +0200
From:	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
To:	One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
CC:	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>,
	Tim Waugh <tim@...erelk.net>, Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>,
	Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>,
	Willy Tarreau <willy@...a-x.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org,
	"devel@...verdev.osuosl.org" <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>
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@...il.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 5:27 PM, Sudip Mukherjee
>> <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.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
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