On 14 November 2018 at 11:23, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <phi...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 12:13 PM Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> > wrote: >> On 13 November 2018 at 20:10, Alistair Francis <alistai...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > These two and the Xilinx boards seem a little out of place in this >> > patch. I agree they probably aren't maintained as well as they should >> > be, but the patch talks about orphaned boards and these four all have >> > active QEMU maintainers listed. >> >> Yeah, I was planning to improve the commit message, >> something along the lines of an extra para: >> >> "The Xilinx boards are maintained, but patches to >> them go via the target-arm tree, so add myself as a >> maintainer there too." >> >> Really this is because we're overloading "maintainer" >> to mean both "this person cares about and is the >> primary reviewer and yes/no decision for them" and >> also "this person is responsible for getting the >> patches into the tree". Perhaps we should instead >> define a new letter tag for the latter ? > > What about changing the 'M:' tag description to the one you just suggested?
That would leave us without a tag for "this person is the maintainer, they just don't deal with submitting pull requests"... thanks -- PMM
