Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Reduce load on ppc target maintainers

From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <f4bug@amsat.org>
Cc: peter.maydell@linaro.org, dbarboza@redhat.com, aik@ozlabs.ru,
	mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
	groug@kaod.org, qemu-ppc@nongnu.org, clg@kaod.org,
	"Hervé Poussineau" <hpoussin@reactos.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Reduce load on ppc target maintainers
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2021 14:26:49 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YVFICT74xKATaOYQ@yekko> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b466a1f8-4459-b6f5-ad3e-51370231ec94@amsat.org>

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On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 05:16:45PM +0200, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
65;6402;1c> On 9/24/21 11:55, David Gibson wrote:
> > Greg Kurz and myself have been co-maintainers for the ppc and ppc64
> > targets for some time now.  However, both our day job responsibilities
> > and interests are leading us towards other areas, so we have less time
> > to devote to this any more.
> > 
> > Therefore, here's a bunch of updates to MAINTAINERS, intended to
> > reduce the load on us.  Mostly this is marking fairly obscure
> > platforms as orphaned (if someone wants to take over maintainership,
> > let me know ASAP).  Bigger changes may be coming, but we haven't
> > decided exactly what that's going to look like yet.
> > 
> > Changes since v1:
> >   * Reworked how OpenPIC is listed
> > 
> > David Gibson (5):
> >    MAINTAINERS: Orphan obscure ppc platforms
> >    MAINTAINERS: Remove David & Greg as reviewers for a number of boards
> >    MAINTAINERS: Remove David & Greg as reviewers/co-maintainers of
> >      powernv
> >    MAINTAINERS: Add information for OpenPIC
> >    MAINTAINERS: Demote sPAPR from "Supported" to "Maintained"
> > 
> >   MAINTAINERS | 42 ++++++++++++++----------------------------
> >   1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
> > 
> 
> So after this series we still have:
> 
> PowerPC TCG CPUs
> M: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
> M: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
> L: qemu-ppc@nongnu.org
> S: Maintained
> F: target/ppc/
> F: hw/ppc/
> F: include/hw/ppc/
> F: disas/ppc.c
> F: tests/acceptance/machine_ppc.py
> 
> You might want to drop the *hw/ppc* lines which should
> be covered elsewhere now.

Good idea, I'll revise that.

> tests/acceptance/machine_ppc.py should be split in multiple
> files to ease the tests maintainance.

Also a good idea.

> Thanks for staying PPC/TCG maintainers :)

Uhhh... we're not.  I just haven't tackled that side of things yet to
reduce the number of spinning plates.

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