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Re: [Qemu-devel] Unclear committer situation
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Alexander Graf |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Unclear committer situation |
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Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:24:55 +0100 |
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andrzej zaborowski wrote:
> 2009/12/1 Alexander Graf <address@hidden>:
>
>> Maintainership for a subsystem is completely different from "feeling
>> responsible for patches". You can be the person checking stuff in without
>> knowing anything about the subsystem. If it breaks, have the community fix
>> it. If it stays broken and nobody cares, remove the subsystem.
>>
>
> If it leads to removing the subsystem then it's not much gain for the
> project and the users :)
>
> I don't know of any succesful project that has maintainers who don't
> feel responsible for the code they're comming.
>
Well the point I was trying to make is that committer != maintainer. Avi
commits PPC/S390 kvm stuff all the time without knowing the
architectures inside out ;).
Alex
Re: [Qemu-devel] Unclear committer situation, Aurelien Jarno, 2009/12/02
Re: [Qemu-devel] Unclear committer situation, Avi Kivity, 2009/12/02
Re: [Qemu-devel] Unclear committer situation, malc, 2009/12/02