From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20047 invoked by alias); 8 Oct 2014 09:49:48 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libc-alpha-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-alpha-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 20038 invoked by uid 89); 8 Oct 2014 09:49:47 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: relay1.mentorg.com From: Thomas Schwinge To: Torvald Riegel , Carlos O'Donell CC: "Joseph S. Myers" , Subject: Re: Subsystem maintainers In-Reply-To: <1412711085.30642.122.camel@triegel.csb> References: <542AC26E.5070906@redhat.com> <54342BE2.6000006@redhat.com> <1412711085.30642.122.camel@triegel.csb> User-Agent: Notmuch/0.9-101-g81dad07 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/24.3.1 (i586-pc-linux-gnu) Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 09:49:00 -0000 Message-ID: <87bnpmrivo.fsf@kepler.schwinge.homeip.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-SW-Source: 2014-10/txt/msg00222.txt.bz2 --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-length: 1775 Hi! On Tue, 07 Oct 2014 21:44:45 +0200, Torvald Riegel wro= te: > On Tue, 2014-10-07 at 14:07 -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote: > > On 10/07/2014 12:22 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote: > > > Perhaps we should have subsystem maintainers for more areas than just= =20 > > > architecture ports, where the number of people interested in a partic= ular=20 > > > area is limited? The principle would be that changes by those people= in=20 > > > those areas are presumed to have consensus and not need someone else = to=20 > > > review them, in the absence of any actual objections that show the ab= sence=20 > > > of consensus (but it would still be the case that anyone could expres= s=20 > > > their concerns about such a change, or a change in such an area could= =20 > > > reach consensus through review by people other than the subsystem=20 > > > maintainers, especially when it's just part of a global change, just = as=20 > > > today with architecture changes). > >=20 > > I agree. We should have some kind of subsystem maintainers to simplify > > the process of finding an expert to review your patch, and simplifying > > the work for the subsystem maintainer. > >=20 > > > I'd be willing to be a subsystem maintainer in this sense for soft-fp= and=20 > > > the conform/ tests. > >=20 > > We should see consensus on the idea of subsystem maintainers. > >=20 > > I'd like to see others comment that they are OK with the idea. >=20 > This would be fine with me. If we have areas of glibc where only a few > people (or, 1 person) are knowledgeable enough to maintain it, then we > can as well be honest about it :) I agree. So, basically, extend (and rename) . Gr=C3=BC=C3=9Fe, Thomas --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-length: 472 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJUNQirAAoJEK3/DN1sMFFtQVIH/j+eM0zhqVwU51mI6KBdvNHO fmHMlzNmx726FUr12uN6yUFcK4rOYaui+mNq3y4czDucHkTIL2vWiENMy5PDCpgc 7924yCWHuTi8fGcverFrkKTfhGuHvvjoQ6HVjAy+LANTjaLJXtDgFjNexgjPtUB2 0YomMHztR3AXor3e8+m24xp8dwAJ3w6wjpUBL+dvlOjHn4QnRYhasFJPcJAWZPrQ 8iiJu1RIeRKD2FjCreHYdeN4vQB6zcMO8IrG10Y0WdEYHKdahsT5ocGDlXQ9kgMO ilq1QsukwADJ1P+NSJ76zpa1ca7KZBTAeqHyqSC2RMiQOzneJdC+8i4Tt1higow= =j2ma -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--