Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayl...@ilande.co.uk> writes: > On 12/10/2022 13:11, Alex Bennée wrote:
[...] >> +Becoming a maintainer >> +--------------------- >> + >> +Maintainers are volunteers who put themselves forward to keep an eye >> +on an area of code. They are generally accepted by the community to Do you mean "expected by the community"? >> +have a good understanding of the subsystem and able to make a positive >> +contribution to the project. > > Is it worth making this a bit stronger such as "having a demonstrable track > record of providing accepted upstream patches"? I'm not sure if this is being > a bit too > nit-picky, however someone could have good understanding of a subsystem such > as PCI but be still unfamiliar with the QEMU's PCI APIs and how they should > be used. I think existing practice varies. For something that is widely used, we generally require enough of a track record (contributions *and* reviews) to inspire confidence. But if you submit something new, say a machine, we may ask you to stick around and maintain it as a prerequisite for merging. [...]
