linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add more people to the MTD maintainer team

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Date:   Mon, 24 Oct 2016 16:39:28 +0200
From:   Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
To:     Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...e-electrons.com>,
        Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@...il.com>,
        Cyrille Pitchen <cyrille.pitchen@...el.com>,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
        Brian Norris <computersforpeace@...il.com>,
        linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org
Cc:     Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel@...guardiasur.com.ar>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add more people to the MTD maintainer team

Boris,

On 24.10.2016 14:35, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> Brian has been maintaining the MTD subsystem alone for several years
> now, and maintaining such a subsystem can really be time consuming.
> 
> Create a maintainer team formed of the most active MTD contributors
> to help Brian with this task, which will hopefully improve the
> subsystem reactivity.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...e-electrons.com>
> ---
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm just trying to summarize what I understood the process would be,
> don't hesitate to correct me if I'm wrong.
> 
> For each release we will assign a specific MTD maintainer which will be
> responsible for taking MTD core patches and pulling spi-nor and nand PRs
> into the MTD tree and eventually send one or several PRs to Linus.
> 
> For fixes that are submitted after -rc1, I usually ask Brian to apply
> them directly into the MTD tree (I don't think there's a real need to
> prepare spi-nor and nand PRs for fixes), so we can proceed the same
> way: ask the maintainer assigned to this release to also take care of
> applying fixes and sending PRs to Linus before each -rc.
> 
> If you have other ideas, or would like to proceed differently, don't
> hesitate propose them.

Sounds good to me.
Acked-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>

Thanks,
//richard