x86 maintainers

Roland McGrath roland@hack.frob.com
Wed Feb 22 01:06:00 GMT 2012


> Yes, agreed.  We may want the maintainers to be reviewers only (approving 
> other people's changes, not their own) - though for some more 
> straightforward changes I think it would be fine for a maintainer to 
> commit and then other maintainers to review and refine the change 
> afterwards as appropriate.

Sure.  But if they're really straightforward, i.e. not requiring especially
arcane machine knowledge and clearly not at risk of retarding performance,
then all the general maintainers can do them just as well as an arch
maintainer would if we had one.


Thanks,
Roland



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