During the review of the media committer's profile, it was noticed that the responsibility for timely review patches was not clear: such review is expected that all developers listed at MAINTAINERS with the "M:" tag (e.g. "maintainers" on its broad sense). This is orthogonal of being a media committer or not. Such duty is implied at: Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-issues.rst and at the MAINTAINERS header, when it says that even when the status is "odd fixes", the patches will flow in. So, let make it explicit at the maintainer-entry-profile that maintainers need to do timely reviews. Also, while right now our focus is on granting committer rights to maintainers, the media-committer model may evolve in the future to accept other committers that don't have such duties. So, make it clear at the media-committer.rst that the duties related to reviewing patches from others are for the drivers they are maintainers as well. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/driver-api/media/maintainer-entry-profile.rst | 5 +++++ Documentation/driver-api/media/media-committer.rst | 6 +++--- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/media/maintainer-entry-profile.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/media/maintainer-entry-profile.rst index fa28059f7b3f..87b71f89b1df 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/media/maintainer-entry-profile.rst +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/media/maintainer-entry-profile.rst @@ -173,6 +173,11 @@ b. Committers' workflow: patches are handled by media committers:: On both workflows, all patches shall be properly reviewed at linux-media@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (LMML) before being merged at media-committers.git. +Such patches will be reviewed timely by the maintainers and reviewers as +listed in the MAINTAINERS file. The subsystem maintainers will follow one of +the above workflows, e. g. they will either send a pull request or merge +patches directly at the media-committers tree. + When patches are picked by patchwork and when merged at media-committers, CI bots will check for errors and may provide e-mail feedback about patch problems. When this happens, the patch submitter must fix them, or diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/media/media-committer.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/media/media-committer.rst index 3d0987a8a93b..0bc038a0fdcc 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/media/media-committer.rst +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/media/media-committer.rst @@ -90,9 +90,9 @@ be a part of their maintenance tasks. Due to that, to become a committer or a core committer, a consensus between all subsystem maintainers is required, as they all need to trust a developer well enough to be delegated the responsibility to maintain part of the code -and to properly review patches from third parties, in a timely manner and -keeping the status of the reviewed code at https://patchwork.linuxtv.org -updated. +and to properly review patches from third parties for the drivers that they +maintain in a timely manner and keeping the status of the patches at +https://patchwork.linuxtv.org updated. .. Note:: -- 2.47.1
