linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] docs: media: profile: make it clearer about maintainership duties

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Message-ID: <Z07-RklaMXOy3C2g@valkosipuli.retiisi.eu>
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2024 12:49:10 +0000
From: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@....fi>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-media@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] docs: media: profile: make it clearer about
 maintainership duties

Hi Mauro,

On Tue, Dec 03, 2024 at 10:28:46AM +0100, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Em Mon, 2 Dec 2024 14:48:53 +0000
> Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@....fi> escreveu:
> 
> > Hi Mauro,
> > 
> > On Mon, Dec 02, 2024 at 10:26:21AM +0100, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> > > During the review of the media committes profile, it was noticed  
> > 
> > s/committe\K/r/
> 
> Addressed this and the other editorial changes.
> 
> > Can we expect people listed as maintainers to either send PRs or be media
> > committers? I think this might be eventually the result but I think we're
> > quite far from this currently and I expect things to remain that way in the
> > near future.
> 
> Yes, having driver maintainers being committers and sending PRs is what we
> expect to happen first.
> 
> For mid/long-term, once driver maintainers get in board, we may also have
> other committers for the drivers whose maintainer is also a committer.
> 
> Now, having committers for drivers whose maintainer is not a committer
> doesn't sound a good idea, except if such committer is doing just
> janitorial work and gets A-B/R-B from the driver maintainer on all
> patches he merges.

I meant primarily people listed in MAINTAINERS but who are at least not
yet Media committers.

-- 
Kind regards,

Sakari Ailus