On 6/8/21 3:45 PM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: >> Right, I am just worried that if I am the only person that shows up in >> the get_maintainer.pl output, the submitter will have to know some other >> way who a relevant maintainer is that can take the patches otherwise >> they won't be CC'd. Or we'll have to hope a relevant maintainer sees >> them on the list. Or I'll have to chase down a maintainer myself >> assuming the reviews all check out. :-) > > Well there's no real guarantee that any of the previous committers will > take the patch even if they are listed by get_maintainer. This is typical > with anything lacking a maintainer assigned. We typically hope that > whoever runs the "misc" queue sees the patch and picks it up, but often > it requires pings to remind someone to pick it up. > > The only real right answer here is to actually get someone as the > nominated maintainer. Every other scenario is a just a band aid and > is not a good experiance for contributors. A nominated reviewer is > usually hoped to be a stepping stone to someone becoming maintainer > in future, so in that sense the fact that only you will be cc'd is > sort of intentional :-)
That makes perfect sense. I'll forge on ahead, then :-) Thanks! Connor
