Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752618AbZK2HJL (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Nov 2009 02:09:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751197AbZK2HJK (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Nov 2009 02:09:10 -0500 Received: from master.debian.org ([70.103.162.29]:32990 "EHLO master.debian.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751017AbZK2HJJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Nov 2009 02:09:09 -0500 Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:09:03 +1100 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?An=EDbal?= Monsalve Salazar To: Michal Marek Cc: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , linux-kbuild , lkml , Stephen Rothwell , Sam Ravnborg , =?iso-8859-1?Q?Am=E9rico?= Wang Subject: Re: Stepping down as kbuild maintainer Message-ID: <20091129070903.GA3843@master.debian.org> Mail-Followup-To: Michal Marek , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , linux-kbuild , lkml , Stephen Rothwell , Sam Ravnborg , =?iso-8859-1?Q?Am=E9rico?= Wang References: <20091120182249.GA28251@merkur.ravnborg.org> <20091121224444.GA5296@master.debian.org> <4B0AFA20.9090200@suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <4B0AFA20.9090200@suse.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2539 Lines: 59 On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:09:52PM +0100, Michal Marek wrote: >I would also like to maintain kbuild. Maybe we could work together? >What do you think? I already talked with Sam: (Sorry, I've been very busy with my Real Life. :) Sure. I agree. I'll test the patches on my machines (i386, x86_64, sparc64, powerpc, armel, alpha, and mips) and reply to them timely. >>On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 03:55:29PM +0100, Michal Marek wrote: >>>I would be interested / willing to take over kbuild maintainership >>>either alone or together with An?bal who also expressed his interest. >>>I do have a linux-related job, actually kbuild-related (maintaining >>>kernel build infrastructure at a certain linux vendor) and my boss >>>would allow me to work on kbuild. I think have good experience with >>>the kbuild scripts, GNU make, perl, etc. Looking at the number of >>>patches sent to linux-kbuild, I think I should be able to manage >>>that. And I only have one kid so far ;-). >> >>It helps enourmously if you anyway have do to some of the time >>consuming things at work. >> >>I suggest you and Anibal work out how to deal with stuff. >> >>I will continue to be around and can answer any questions - but the >>learning curve is maybe a bit steep in the beginning but then things >>gets easy. >> >>And you are right - it has not been the # of patches to take care of. >>Only that to do stuff properly you should: >>- review carefully >>- test on 5+ architectures >>- and be responsive >> >>So if you can put time aside for this a few times a week and maybe >>even the possibility to concentrate on something for more than 1 hour >>in row you should be fine. I agree with Sam too. On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 03:22:11PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote: >You will need to ensure that the patches/commits in your tree/series >have been: > * submitted under GPL v2 (or later) and include the Contributor's > Signed-off-by, > * posted to the relevant mailing list, > * reviewed by you (or another maintainer of your subsystem tree), > * successfully unit tested, and > * destined for the current or next Linux merge window. > >Basically, this should be just what you would send to Linus (or ask him >to fetch). It is allowed to be rebased if you deem it necessary. And with Stephen as well. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/