The first line of the MAINTAINERS file are: " The intention of this file is to provide a set of names that we can rely on for helping in patch reviews and questions. "
Unfortunately, some maintainers do not endorse their role for questions asked on the mailing list. Hope making it clear in the contribution guide will enforce more responsive maintainer participation. Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monja...@6wind.com> --- doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst b/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst index fe71381..84a5dab 100644 --- a/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst +++ b/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst @@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ The role of the component maintainers is to: * Review patches for the component or delegate the review. The review should be done, ideally, within 1 week of submission to the mailing list. * Add an ``acked-by`` to patches, or patchsets, that are ready for committing to a tree. +* Reply to questions asked about the component. Component maintainers can be added or removed by submitting a patch to the ``MAINTAINERS`` file. Maintainers should have demonstrated a reasonable level of contributions or reviews to the component area. -- 2.7.0
