Re: [PATCH] target/ppc, hw/ppc: Change maintainers

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

Hi Daniel,

On 11/5/21 10:48, Daniel Henrique Barboza wrote:
> On 11/5/21 00:46, David Gibson wrote:
>> As our day jobs and interests have moved onto other things, Greg and I
>> have
>> been struggling to keep on top of maintainership of target/ppc and
>> associated pieces like the pseries and powernv machine types, with their
>> platform specific devices.
>>
>> We've therefore discussed and plan to transfer maintainership to
>> Cédric Le
>> Goater (primary) and Daniel Henrique Barboza (backup).  Cédric and Daniel
>> have been actively contributing to the area for some time, and they're
>> supported in this by their current employer, IBM, who has an obvious
>> interest in the platform.
> 
> Thank you and Greg and Red Hat for all the years of service supporting
> qemu-ppc in the community. IBM will shoulder this responsibility now.

In term of the MAINTAINERS file:

        S: Status, one of the following:
           Supported:   Someone is actually paid to look after this.
           Maintained:  Someone actually looks after it.

The PPC entries have a 'Maintained' status. You say "IBM will shoulder
this responsibility", does that mean the entries will be 'Supported'
as in "someone paid to look after them"?
I wonder because both Cédric and you have some commits with an IBM
email, but both are registering a non-IBM email as contact. I don't
mind the email technical detail, but I am curious about the status
and expectations.

Thanks,

Phil.

>> Greg and I do plan to stay around in some capacity for at least the next
>> 6 months, providing reviews and advice to assist the new maintainers into
>> the role.
> 
> I hope both of you stay around way longer than that :)
> 
> 
> 
> Reviewed-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
> 
>>
>> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
>> ---
>>   MAINTAINERS | 20 ++++++++++++++------
>>   1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
>> index 797be5b366..066c4fb2b0 100644
>> --- a/MAINTAINERS
>> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
>> @@ -262,8 +262,10 @@ F: hw/openrisc/
>>   F: tests/tcg/openrisc/
>>     PowerPC TCG CPUs
>> -M: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
>> -M: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
>> +M: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
>> +M: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
>> +R: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
>> +R: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
>>   L: qemu-ppc@nongnu.org
>>   S: Maintained
>>   F: target/ppc/
>> @@ -382,8 +384,10 @@ F: target/mips/kvm*
>>   F: target/mips/sysemu/
>>     PPC KVM CPUs
>> -M: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
>> -M: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
>> +M: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
>> +M: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
>> +R: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
>> +R: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
>>   S: Maintained
>>   F: target/ppc/kvm.c
>>   @@ -1321,8 +1325,10 @@ F: include/hw/rtc/m48t59.h
>>   F: tests/acceptance/ppc_prep_40p.py
>>     sPAPR
>> -M: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
>> -M: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
>> +M: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
>> +M: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
>> +R: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
>> +R: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
>>   L: qemu-ppc@nongnu.org
>>   S: Maintained
>>   F: hw/*/spapr*
>> @@ -1382,6 +1388,8 @@ F: include/hw/pci-host/mv64361.h
>>     Virtual Open Firmware (VOF)
>>   M: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
>> +R: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
>> +R: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
>>   R: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
>>   R: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
>>   L: qemu-ppc@nongnu.org
>>
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