linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add myself as arm sunxi soc maintainer

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Message-ID: <20201112104627.sl4finod5ruzhmd3@gilmour.lan>
Date:   Thu, 12 Nov 2020 11:46:27 +0100
From:   Maxime Ripard <maxime@...no.tech>
To:     Frank Lee <frank@...winnertech.com>
Cc:     wens@...e.org, tiny.windzz@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add myself as arm sunxi soc maintainer

Hi,

On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 03:00:02PM +0800, Frank Lee wrote:
> From: Yangtao Li <frank@...winnertech.com>
> 
> Add myself to sunxi maintainer so the mail can cc me.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yangtao Li <frank@...winnertech.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.

Maxime

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