16/11/2020 19:28, Radha Mohan: > On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 2:39 PM Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net> wrote: > > 13/11/2020 20:18, Radha Mohan: > > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 11:57 PM Mahipal Challa <mcha...@marvell.com> > > > wrote: > > > From: Radha Mohan <mohun...@gmail.com> > > > Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 11:44 PM > > > > On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 4:20 PM Radha Mohan Chintakuntla > > > > <rad...@marvell.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Replace the maintainers for OcteonTx2 DMA and EP drivers. > > > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Radha Mohan Chintakuntla <rad...@marvell.com> > > [...] > > > > >Adding previous maintainers to ack. > > > > Acked-by: Mahipal Challa <mcha...@marvell.com > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Mahipal > > > > > > Hi Thomas, > > > Could you please pick this patch ? > > > > This low-priority patch has been sent 4 days ago, > > and was acked by only 1 maintainer 3 days ago. > > > > It was acked by both the old maintainers Satha Koteshwar and Mahipal > Challa. Maybe both of those emails didn't come on top of each other.
I missed one. > > Why pushing? What is your fear exactly? > > Just want to make the transfer of ownership official in the mainline. > There's no fear I just normally wanted to send a reminder to you to > pick as it might be missed inclusion. If there's a guarantee that all > ack'ed patches will go automatically then I won't be sending any > reminder emails in future. It's OK to send reminder, but please wait at least a week. > > Why the new maintainers candidates have 0 and 2 contributions > > in git history? > > > These drivers requires some maintenance and likely expanded to support > future chips from Marvell. So you will not see contributions right > away. > So to become a maintainer one has to have prior contributions ? Yes: http://doc.dpdk.org/guides/contributing/patches.html#maintainers-and-sub-trees " Maintainers should have demonstrated a reasonable level of contributions or reviews to the component area. The maintainer should be confirmed by an ack from an established contributor. " > Kind of makes odd sense as these drivers are specific to our chip and we > are changing ownership for maintaining them. > I do not understand why you have an issue here? > You don't like reminding then I understand. I don't like how you push new unconfirmed maintainers.
