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Re: Subsystem maintainers
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Torvald Riegel <triegel at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Thomas Schwinge <thomas at codesourcery dot com>, Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>, <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2014 23:29:02 +0000
- Subject: Re: Subsystem maintainers
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On Wed, 8 Oct 2014, Torvald Riegel wrote:
> > 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.
I've added more reviewers to that table based on this discussion. We may
wish to allow for more discussion of subsystem maintainers as people who
can assume consensus for their changes in a given area by default (the
general concept, or specific people for specific components) before
listing any of those.
--
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com