Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932927Ab1EYIX7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 May 2011 04:23:59 -0400 Received: from metis.ext.pengutronix.de ([92.198.50.35]:57316 "EHLO metis.ext.pengutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751492Ab1EYIX4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 May 2011 04:23:56 -0400 Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 10:23:44 +0200 From: Sascha Hauer To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Linus Torvalds , Thomas Gleixner , Russell King , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nicolas Pitre Subject: Re: [RFC] ARM Subarchitecture group maintainership Message-ID: <20110525082344.GF22096@pengutronix.de> References: <201105181047.17309.arnd@arndb.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201105181047.17309.arnd@arndb.de> X-Sent-From: Pengutronix Hildesheim X-URL: http://www.pengutronix.de/ X-IRC: #ptxdist @freenode X-Accept-Language: de,en X-Accept-Content-Type: text/plain X-Uptime: 10:23:05 up 4 days, 22:02, 41 users, load average: 0.27, 0.37, 0.53 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2001:6f8:1178:2:215:17ff:fe12:23b0 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: sha@pengutronix.de X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on metis.ext.pengutronix.de); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-PTX-Original-Recipient: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3167 Lines: 63 On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 10:47:16AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > This is the draft plan for maintaining the ARM subarchitectures in a common > tree, as a way to help coordinate the upstream merging of the > arch/arm/{plat,mach}-* changes into Linus' tree. > > This was discussed in great length at the Linaro Developer Summit in Budapest > last week where we worked out an initial plan. We are modeling the maintainance > after how the linux-tip tree is used for the x86 architecture, with a set > of developers that have commit access to one tree on kernel.org and > have mutual trust in one another. Nicolas Pitre and me are funded > by Linaro to do the bulk of the work, while Thomas Gleixner will help > us part-time with his long time architecture maintainance experience. > Despite the funding by Linaro, this is not a Linaro project and all > ARM subarchitectures are welcome to go through our tree. > > Russell King's role as ARM maintainer is of course unchanged by this, but > he has the same commit access to the new tree as the other maintainers and > is welcome to work in the same tree. We are also open to nominations for > further people outside of Linaro to join us as committers. Marc Zyngier from > ARM ltd is one of the candidates that has been suggested and I would also > like to see someone from Google. We have to find the right balance with the > number of committers so we get all the work done without stepping on each > other's toes. > > Our tree will be strictly organized in topic brances so we can feed them > upstream in the bitesized chunks that Linus likes. The master branch > is an integration branch that pulls all other branches that are scheduled > for the next merge window and itself gets integrated into linux-next. > > We will probably not be fully functional during the 2.6.40 merge window, > but we are trying our best to be useful. For 2.6.41, my hope is that > we can merge the bulk of the ARM subarchitecture changes through this > tree. Once Linus is happy with the way that the process works, we can > mandate that all ARM subarchitecture changes go through our tree, until > then it stays voluntary. > > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann > Cc: Nicolas Pitre > Cc: Thomas Gleixner > Cc: Russell King > Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > --- > > Maintainers: If you are happy with the layout of the process, > please ack this patch, otherwise please comment. As Freescale i.MX maintainer: Acked-by: Sascha Hauer -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | -- 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/