Subsystem maintainers

[Torvald Riegel]

On Wed, 2014-10-08 at 11:49 +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> 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>.

Or add the additional column for "component owners".

We might also want to not just base this on components, but other
cross-cutting things like "security".  For example, I'd be happy to
review everything related to concurrency.