Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add Angelo as MediaTek SoC co-maintainer

[AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@collabora.com>]

Il 02/10/23 05:30, Chen-Yu Tsai ha scritto:
> On Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 3:37 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 29, 2023, at 04:20, AngeloGioacchino Del Regno wrote:
>>> I am a top reviewer mainly for MediaTek SoC related patches in most
>>> subsystems and I've also been upstreaming both improvements, fixes
>>> and new drivers and devicetrees when required.
>>>
>>> The MediaTek scene saw a generous increase in number of patches that
>>> are sent to the lists every week, increasing the amount of required
>>> efforts to maintain the MTK bits overall, and we will possibly see
>>> even more of that.
>>>
>>> For this reason, and also because of suggestions and encouragement
>>> coming from the community, I'm stepping up to be a co-maintainer of
>>> MediaTek SoCs support.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno
>>> <angelogioacchino.delregno@collabora.com>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> P.S.: I tried to reach to Matthias for almost two months, but I couldn't
>>> find any way to talk to him and he has been unresponsive on the mailing
>>> lists as well.
>>>
>>> P.P.S.: This also comes after Rob Herring's suggestion to have myself as
>>> a MediaTek SoC co-maintainer [1] and support from other people.
>>>
>>> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230804225813.12493-1-robh@kernel.org/
>>
>> Thanks for volunteering for this!
>>
>> I have no information on what Mattias is doing, but I see that he
>> has not merged any patches since June, and that he never sent a
>> pull request for your patches that are still in his for-next
>> branch.
>>
>> I hope he's going to be ok, but let's plan for you to take over
>> for the moment, at least until Matthias is again able to keep
>> maintaining the platform in the near future.
>>
>> Here is my suggestion for how to continue from here:
>>
>> - Please send your MAINTAINERS file update to soc@kernel.org
>>    along  with any urgent bugfixes you may have, so I can forward
>>    them for 6.7. I'm wrapping up the current set of fixes at
>>    the moment, so this would be for next week's rc
>>
>> - Create a git tree with the ususal branches (drivers, soc, dt,
>>    fixes, for-next) and ask Stephen Rothwell (on Cc) to add
>>    the combined for-next branch  to linux-next for integration testing
> 
> I suggest creating a shared git tree from the start. That way when
> Mattias comes back and does agree to co-maintainership, or if anyone
> else joins in, you don't have to change the git tree URL in a lot of
> places.
> 

I agree with creating a shared git tree from the start... I currently don't have
a kernel.org account yet, as I'm waiting for helpdesk to grant my account request.

They asked me to send a patch adding myself to MAINTAINERS as they would use that
as a basis to grant the account request... so I guess it's happening soon; seen
the urgency, I would do anything in my power to speed up the process, but probably
there's "nothing to do" about it.

I am guessing that the right thing to do right now is to just send the mostly
critical fixes to soc@kernel.org, along with this patch, and wait until a shared
tree is created to keep things clean?

>> - Start each branch on 6.6-rc2 (usually we use rc1, but this time
>>    rc2 is a better candidate because of the last-minute
>>    drivers/pmdomain rename), and merge the corresponding branches
>>    from git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/matthias.bgg/linux.git
>>    into those to avoids conflicts with his tree
>>
>> - Add any further patches you want in 6.7 on top
>>
>> - Send a first set of pull requests to soc@kernel.org for whatever
>>    you have merged as soon as you are confident about them,
>>    ideally by the end of next week.
>>
>> - Send additional pull requests for fixups or late features in
>>    the weeks after that as you see fit.
>>
>> See Documentation/process/maintainer-soc.rst for more details
>> on the above. When Mattias comes back, you can work out a new
>> process together with him.
> 
> I can also answer any questions you might have about the process.
> 

Many thanks for your support, I greatly appreciate that.

Cheers,
Angelo