Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> writes: > Hi all, > > I've already chatted with some of you in private, here's the entire idea with a > bit more thought. My motiviation for group maintainership of drm-misc was that I > got a bit a guilty feeling the last few vacations/conferences when folks pinged > about reviewed/tested pretty patches not landing. But also just increasing the > bus factor and sharing the load better is good. And finally a shared misc drm > tree would allow fringe drivers to get faster into Dave's drm-next by > piggy-packing on top of the one pull request train. And it would also reduce a > bit tree proliferation (at one point we had drm-misc/-bridge/-panel/-trivial and > may more even). And at least everyone I chatted with seems to like the idea in > principle. [...] > Of course group maintainership needs an initial group. My experience from > drm-intel is that a bigger group of maintainer has benefits: It's clear that > part-time maintaining is ok too, with maintainers focusing on their area of > interest/expertise and only helping out in other places when there's a gap (due > to e.g. vacations). Anyway, here's my thoughts for the starting group: > Archit, Jani, Thierry & me as existing maintainers of drm-misc/bridge/panel, > Alex&Rob as maintainers of big drivers and engaged in core drm stuff, > Daniel Stone so that he has no more excuses to stall on arm drm ci. > > I think if this goes well we can extend it to more driver maintainers, e.g. > Patrick would like to just push gma500 patches to some tree and not fiddle with > pull requests all the time himself. I would love to be able to push vc4 changes to an "automatically" pull requested tree with some amount of CI (at least of the build-all-the-options variety like kbuild test robot does). Pull requests are one of the more error-prone and time-consuming parts of my process.
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