Re: [RFC] Add co-maintainer for fbdev

From: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
Date: Tue May 28 2013 - 20:38:43 EST


On 23:19 Tue 28 May , Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Monday 27 May 2013, Florian Tobias Schandinat wrote:
> > >> On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
> > >> <plagnioj@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >>> Hi Florian,
> > >>>
> > >>> As you seems very busy I'd like to propose the help you to handle the
> > >>> fbdev subsystem to easier the rich of the fbdev patch to Linus
> > >>>
> > >>> As I'm working on fbdev on at91 and others and already Co-Maintain the
> > >>> at91 mach on ARM
> > >>>
> > >>> And if you are not willing to continue I could take over
> >
> > Yeah, it would be great if you could help, at the moment I get barely
> > any sleep, let alone that I could keep up with the majority of mail I
> > get. I'll let you decide whether you want to be sole maintainer or not.
>
> For any bigger subsystems, it's good practice to have two maintainers,
> even if one of them does all the work. I think it makes sense to have
> Jean-Christophe as the primary maintainer and owner of the git tree,
> but it may also be good to have you or Tomi listed as a second maintainer
> for times when Jean-Christophe isn't available.

I agree with Arnd

As example I'll be mostly off first week of June.


Tomi Florian what do you think

I plan to send the patch + PULL to Linus end of this week before I work-off

For the record the new git tree is here

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/plagnioj/linux-fbdev.git

Best Regrds,
J.
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