Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Update for the current location of the bcm2835 tree.

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 12:32:59PM -0800, Michael Zoran wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-01-31 at 11:48 -0800, Eric Anholt wrote:
> > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > index 844835563ef8..64b281a7ff09 100644
> > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > @@ -2624,7 +2624,7 @@ M:	Lee Jones <lee@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >  M:	Eric Anholt <eric@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >  L:	linux-rpi-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (moderated for non-
> > subscribers)
> >  L:	linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (moderated for non-
> > subscribers)
> > -T:	git
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rpi/linux-rpi.git
> > +T:	git git://github.com/anholt/linux
> >  S:	Maintained
> >  N:	bcm283[5-7x]
> >  F:	drivers/staging/vc04_services
> 
> Just to add two cents here, since this is sort of a open source
> community driven thing, I think there should be multiple maintainers in
> case of a disagreement.  2 is good, 3 is better so that it's impossible
> to have a split disagreement and the third person can break the tie.
> 
> Github is cool as the e-mail based system is really, really bad.  But
> if it is on github, I think it should have a neutral name not a
> person's name and allow multiple people to merge in pulls. 

The email-based "system" is standard Linux policy for patch review,
which has been established as a way of minimising the effort otherwise
required by reviewers.

If folk want to deal with stuff "internally" on github off-list, that's
fine, but in order to get patches upstreamed, the patches still need to
be posted to a public Linux mailing list for review purposes.

You can't get away from the "e-mail based system".  Sorry.

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