On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 7:04 PM, Matt Turner <matts...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 3:06 PM, Emil Velikov <emil.l.veli...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Hi Rob, >> >> Speaking of maintainers... I have a patch somewhere that adds you as >> maintainer for $linux/drivers/drm/gpu/msm/. >> Guess I should send it already ;-) >> >> On 19 April 2016 at 22:11, Rob Clark <robdcl...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> From: Rob Clark <robcl...@freedesktop.org> >>> >>> Copied from linux kernel, with minimal changes to script (just to >>> recognize mesa src tree rather than linux kernel src tree), and slimmed >>> down MAINTAINER file syntax to recognize that we don't really have >>> subsystem "maintainers" in the same sense as the linux kernel (ie. no >>> different mailing lists and git trees per subsystem). >>> >> Crazy idea: Worth mentioning the commit this based upon and tracking >> all the changes in git ? This way one can leech from the kernel and >> contribute back as applicable ;-) >> >>> The main point is to automate slapping on the correct CC's for patches >>> via git's --cc-cmd feature, more than anything else. >>> >>> I didn't attempt to fully populate the MAINTAINERS file, by a long shot. >>> The point was to just be able to test it, and get feedback if people >>> like the idea. >>> >> Fwiw the idea sounds great imho. There is a small warning though - the >> script is under the GPLv2 licence. Would that interfere with >> BSD/Solaris/companies that ship mesa based binaries ? If it's a matter >> of not shipping the script [in the tarball] that's great. Although >> it's worth checking. > > There's no point in shipping it in the tarball anyway, since it's for > use with git send-email. >
agreed > > Let's let people add themselves to the file if they want. No point in > trying to populate it up front. yeah, I expect people to add themselves, and for the MAINTAINERS file to evolve over time.. if people like the idea I'll send a non-rfc version of the patch which whatever entries people ask me to add themselves for over the next week or so.. mostly just to avoid starting off with a completely empty file. But wasn't planning to wait for it to be completely populated to start with. BR, -R _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
