Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756100AbcKVQgs (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Nov 2016 11:36:48 -0500 Received: from quartz.orcorp.ca ([184.70.90.242]:60665 "EHLO quartz.orcorp.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752171AbcKVQgr (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Nov 2016 11:36:47 -0500 Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2016 09:35:56 -0700 From: Jason Gunthorpe To: Michal Simek Cc: atull , Moritz Fischer , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, marex@denx.de, mbrugger@suse.com, mike.looijmans@topic.nl, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Moritz Fischer , Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-fpga@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] MAINTAINERS: Add myself as co-maintainer to fpga mgr framework. Message-ID: <20161122163556.GA3956@obsidianresearch.com> References: <1479764942-14321-1-git-send-email-mdf@kernel.org> <1479764942-14321-2-git-send-email-mdf@kernel.org> <47eb36a7-ee48-53bd-fbdc-15225c3147ec@xilinx.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47eb36a7-ee48-53bd-fbdc-15225c3147ec@xilinx.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-Broken-Reverse-DNS: no host name found for IP address 10.0.0.151 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 522 Lines: 12 On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 08:48:57AM +0100, Michal Simek wrote: > TBH. I think it is not a bad option. I do normally have backup person > for all repos I do maintain. It doesn't mean that second maintainer does > something but it has all accesses to repos you maintain. I agree, it is a good idea to have a maintainer team model as early as possible just because stuff does happen. We've had to recover from MIA maintainers in RDMA and TPM, and it is not really nice. Generally a lot of patches just get dropped :( Jason