[Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] DT, maintainership, development process

Samuel Ortiz sameo at linux.intel.com
Mon Jul 29 11:28:24 UTC 2013


On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 12:31:37PM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Jul 2013, Samuel Ortiz wrote:
> 
> > - Developement process: Jon Corbet's article about our changelog raised
> >   one interesting question: How can we better track how single SOB
> >   patches are getting merged ? Should maintainers add their SOB when
> >   they pull from subsystems maintainers (If they can) ? This is
> >   something I care about from both my MFD and NFC maintainer
> >   perspectives as I both pull from MFD sub maintainers and am John
> >   Linville's NFC sub maintainer.
> 
> This is difficult ... I think that in some sense merging from subsystem 
> maintainer tree can be viewed as an "implicit" Signoff, although this 
> hasn't been formalized anywhere.
Right. And it's sometimes difficult to track where the patch is coming
from. Not mentioning the case where some of them ends up in -stable
where that information is then lost.

 
> I am afraid there is no way git could handle this easily without rebasing.
That's what I believe as well, but I don't know git internals enough to
be affirmative.
For most maintainers, rebasing is obviously not an option.

Cheers,
Samuel.

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