Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Merge the Gitlab-CI section into the generic CI section

[Thomas Huth]

On 08/03/2021 14.34, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> On 3/8/21 12:57 PM, Alex Bennée wrote:
> > Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> writes:
> >
> > > The status of the gitlab-CI files is currently somewhat confusing, and
> > > it is often not quite clear whether a patch should go via my tree or
> > > via the testing tree of Alex. That situation has grown historically...
> > > Initially, I was the only one using the gitlab-CI, just for my private
> > > repository there. But in the course of time, the gitlab-CI switched to
> > > use the containers from tests/docker/ (which is not part of the gitlab-CI
> > > section in the MAINTAINERS file), and QEMU now even switched to gitlab.com
> > > completely for the repository and will soon use it as its gating CI, too.
> > > So it makes way more sense if the gitlab-ci.yml files belong to the people
> > > who are owning the qemu-project on gitlab.com and take care of the gitlab
> > > CI there. Thus let's merge the gitlab-ci section into the common "test and
> > > build automation" section,
> >
> > I have no problem with this, might as well keep it all together.
> >
> > > and change the status of myself to a "reviewer"
> > > there instead.
> >
> > Can we not have multiple maintainers? Considering how important keeping
> > the testing green should be wouldn't it help to keep the bus factor
> > lower (not to mention holidays/breaks and just plain busy with other
> > things periods). It shouldn't be to hard to track as long as we mention
> > when we queue things to our trees?
>
> I'm OK to be listed as backup maintainer as I do have a genuine
> interest in CI/testing. It will be in my scarcer personal time
> although, so better if another maintainers with more resources
> could pop up along instead.

Well, I guess if Philippe is around for helping at least with the maintainer 
stuff in the qemu-project on gitlab.com, I can also continue as a backup for 
picking up the related CI patches if you like (unless someone else wants to 
volunteer)... I'll send a v2 for this patch accordingly...

 Thomas