On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 4:32 PM, Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 15 Mar 2018, Daniel Vetter <daniel@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 05:11:02PM +0200, Jani Nikula wrote: >>> Until now, the drm-intel commit access have been handed out ad hoc, >>> without transparency, consistency, or fairness. With pressure to add >>> more committers, this is no longer tenable, if it ever was. Document the >>> requirements and expectations around becoming a drm-intel committer. >>> >>> The Linux kernel operates in a model where, by and large, only >>> maintainers commit patches. Maintainer teams are no longer rare, but the >>> drm-intel and drm-misc maintainer/committer model is definitely an >>> outlier. >>> >>> The drm-intel maintainers believe that a reasonable level of experience >>> and track record of working on the driver, as well as actively engaging >>> in the community upstream, are necessary before becoming a >>> committer. While the requirements outlined here may seem strict in >>> contrast with many projects, they are extremely liberal by kernel >>> standards. >>> >>> Finally, no rules are carved in stone. We fully expect the requirements >>> to be adjusted later. However, it will be much easier to start strict >>> and relax the requirements later than the other way round. >>> >>> Cc: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxx> >>> Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>> Cc: Sean Paul <seanpaul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> >>> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxx> >>> Cc: dim-tools@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> Cc: dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> Cc: intel-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxx> >>> Signed-off-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>> Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@xxxxxxxxx> >> >> I've chatted for a few hours with Joonas, and I think before we can >> discuss the proposed document here itself, we first need to reach some >> agreement on why we even have commit rights. I think there's a very wide >> range of answers to that questions, and of course with different goals you >> end up with completely different rules about how to handle commit rights. >> >> Joonas suggested we first discuss this internally, perhaps with the >> maintainers, Kimmo and me. > > Fine. I would rather have discussed this transparently out in the > open. That was, after all, the purpose of sending this out. This was more or less Joonas' requests after our long discussion (he did take a quick look at my reply before I sent it out). We can also have the discussion here, I do have the draft still lying around somewhere. -Daniel -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation +41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list Intel-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
