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Re: [Qemu-trivial] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/47] add missing entries in MAI


From: Markus Armbruster
Subject: Re: [Qemu-trivial] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/47] add missing entries in MAINTAINERS
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 13:28:14 +0200
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Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I first prepared this series thinking about 2.10 but then realized if someone
> is calling ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl he better is using an updated git
> clone :)
>
> Distribs do provide docs/ files in /usr/share/doc/qemu* but not the
> MAINTAINERS file so no hurry for this series.
>
> I provided the script I used in the last patch, I plan to improve it so
> patchew/travis can start to use it: if a new file is added to the repository
> without being covered in MAINTAINERS the script remember the submitter about
> it and eventually he'll resend his patch, I think this is a good practice and
> help the next contributors (anyway this is a valuable experience to look at a
> file history to see who has been hacking around when there is no MAINTAINERS
> entry).
>
> I don't want to overburden current maintainers, so the last patches add
> Orphans entries but I tried to select relevant commiters and include them in
> each patch.
>
> The criteria I used is "If I change this file, who should I notify? Who would
> be interested?"

Where do we stand with this series?



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