Re: [Qemu-trivial] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 18/47] MAINTAINERS: add missing TCG entry

[Fam Zheng]

On Fri, 08/11 14:06, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 11/08/2017 09:54, Fam Zheng wrote:
> > On Thu, 08/10 12:25, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> >>> I think the UI (giving no consideration to how we might implement
> >>> this!) would ideally be something like:
> >>>  * if anybody mails a patch which touches an "unmaintained" file,
> >>>    a robot should send a reply along the lines of "thanks for the
> >>>    patch; unfortunately file X is not maintained so it may be
> >>>    tricky to get patch review for this. You'll need to be
> >>>    persistent and do more of the legwork than if you were patching
> >>>    a file that did have an active maintainer" so contributors
> >>>    know when they've wandered into the swamp
> >>
> >> That's a good idea.
> >>
> >>>  * some mechanism for easily finding patches to unmaintained
> >>>    files which haven't got review yet, so that anybody with some
> >>>    spare time and interest can move some of them along (the idea
> >>>    being to spread the load rather than trying to designate a
> >>>    particular "owner" for this headache)
> >>
> >> Can maybe patchew set a special flag for patches that only touch
> >> unmaintained files?
> > 
> > Interesting idea. We have a number of patch status tracking feature 
> > requests for
> > patchew already. We can tackle them one by one. (The next priority is 
> > implement
> > "merged".)
> 
> Do you use github issues?

I have a private trello board that is slightly more up to date, but github
issues does have a few entries too. We can certainly discuss things there.

Fam