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Hi! On Tue, 07 Oct 2014 21:44:45 +0200, Torvald Riegel <triegel@redhat.com> wrote: > On Tue, 2014-10-07 at 14:07 -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote: > > On 10/07/2014 12:22 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote: > > > Perhaps we should have subsystem maintainers for more areas than just > > > architecture ports, where the number of people interested in a particular > > > area is limited? The principle would be that changes by those people in > > > those areas are presumed to have consensus and not need someone else to > > > review them, in the absence of any actual objections that show the absence > > > of consensus (but it would still be the case that anyone could express > > > their concerns about such a change, or a change in such an area could > > > reach consensus through review by people other than the subsystem > > > maintainers, especially when it's just part of a global change, just as > > > today with architecture changes). > > > > I agree. We should have some kind of subsystem maintainers to simplify > > the process of finding an expert to review your patch, and simplifying > > the work for the subsystem maintainer. > > > > > I'd be willing to be a subsystem maintainer in this sense for soft-fp and > > > the conform/ tests. > > > > We should see consensus on the idea of subsystem maintainers. > > > > I'd like to see others comment that they are OK with the idea. > > This would be fine with me. If we have areas of glibc where only a few > people (or, 1 person) are knowledgeable enough to maintain it, then we > can as well be honest about it :) I agree. So, basically, extend (and rename) <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/MAINTAINERS#Reviewers_by_component>. GrÃÃe, Thomas
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