| Message ID | 20200219191730.1277800-3-paulburton@kernel.org (mailing list archive) |
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| Series | MAINTAINERS: Update MIPS entry | expand |
On Wed, 2020-02-19 at 11:17 -0800, Paul Burton wrote: > My time with MIPS the company has reached its end, and so at best I'll > have little time spend on maintaining arch/mips/. Reflect that in > MAINTAINERS by changing status to Odd Fixes. Hopefully this might spur > the involvement of someone with more time, but even if not it should > help serve to avoid unrealistic expectations. [] > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS [] > @@ -11120,7 +11120,7 @@ W: http://www.linux-mips.org/ > T: git git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/linux.git Maybe Ralf's T: entry should be removed too.
Hi, all, I suggest Jiaxun Yang to be the new Linux/MIPS maintainer because of the following reasons: 1. He is familiar with Linux kernel & MIPS architecture. 2. He is active and has already contributed many patches. 3. He is not an employee of any corporation, so people can expect him to be neutral. 4. He is young and has enough free time to follow the mainstream development closely. 5. His English is good and is willing to maintain a good level of communication with other contributors. Jiaxun, what's your opinion? Regards, Huacai Chen On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 11:16 AM Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote: > > On Wed, 2020-02-19 at 11:17 -0800, Paul Burton wrote: > > My time with MIPS the company has reached its end, and so at best I'll > > have little time spend on maintaining arch/mips/. Reflect that in > > MAINTAINERS by changing status to Odd Fixes. Hopefully this might spur > > the involvement of someone with more time, but even if not it should > > help serve to avoid unrealistic expectations. > [] > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS > [] > > @@ -11120,7 +11120,7 @@ W: http://www.linux-mips.org/ > > T: git git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/linux.git > > Maybe Ralf's T: entry should be removed too. > >
于 2020年2月20日 GMT+08:00 下午2:44:03, Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@gmail.com> 写到: >Hi, all, > >I suggest Jiaxun Yang to be the new Linux/MIPS maintainer because of >the following reasons: > >1. He is familiar with Linux kernel & MIPS architecture. >2. He is active and has already contributed many patches. >3. He is not an employee of any corporation, so people can expect him >to be neutral. >4. He is young and has enough free time to follow the mainstream >development closely. >5. His English is good and is willing to maintain a good level of >communication with other contributors. > >Jiaxun, what's your opinion? Thanks for your recommendation. It's my pleasure to take this duty if I'm eligible. I have experience in MIPS chips and have already involved in some review processes. i.e.loongson, Ingenic/MediaTec & etc. As what Huacai has said, I'm a pure contributor from community, which means I will able to be neutral to MIPS family members. [Also added Yunqiang Su to Cc list as he is the only current MIPS company employee I know.] Thanks. > >Regards, >Huacai Chen
On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 11:17:30AM -0800, Paul Burton wrote: > My time with MIPS the company has reached its end, and so at best I'll > have little time spend on maintaining arch/mips/. Reflect that in > MAINTAINERS by changing status to Odd Fixes. Hopefully this might spur > the involvement of someone with more time, but even if not it should > help serve to avoid unrealistic expectations. I'd like to jump in as MIPS maintainer. I'm doing Linux MIPS kernel development since ages (started with an Olivetti M700 and kernel version 2.x) and right now time for doing the jobs isn't issue:-) Thomas.
CC people from NeoCore and CIP United, and my Wave Computing's mail address. Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> 于2020年2月20日周四 下午7:23写道： > > On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 11:17:30AM -0800, Paul Burton wrote: > > My time with MIPS the company has reached its end, and so at best I'll > > have little time spend on maintaining arch/mips/. Reflect that in > > MAINTAINERS by changing status to Odd Fixes. Hopefully this might spur > > the involvement of someone with more time, but even if not it should > > help serve to avoid unrealistic expectations. > > I'd like to jump in as MIPS maintainer. I'm doing Linux MIPS kernel It is a great news that you are willing to act as maintainer as Linux-MIPS. > development since ages (started with an Olivetti M700 and kernel version > 2.x) and right now time for doing the jobs isn't issue:-) > I noticed that you are mainly working some old machines. And recently years, there are some new machines from Ingenic, Loongson, MTK etc. MIPS Inc also have some MIPSr6 IPs. I think that you need some of these machines. In the last years, we see that the single maintainer is not enough as people may quite busy. Do you think that we need co-maintainers? > Thomas. > > -- > Crap can work. Given enough thrust pigs will fly, but it's not necessarily a > good idea. [ RFC1925, 2.3 ]
Hi, CC people from Ingenic Semi and Wanyee Tech. On 2020年02月20日 20:11, YunQiang Su wrote: > CC people from NeoCore and CIP United, and my Wave Computing's mail address. > > Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> 于2020年2月20日周四 下午7:23写道： >> On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 11:17:30AM -0800, Paul Burton wrote: >>> My time with MIPS the company has reached its end, and so at best I'll >>> have little time spend on maintaining arch/mips/. Reflect that in >>> MAINTAINERS by changing status to Odd Fixes. Hopefully this might spur >>> the involvement of someone with more time, but even if not it should >>> help serve to avoid unrealistic expectations. >> I'd like to jump in as MIPS maintainer. I'm doing Linux MIPS kernel > It is a great news that you are willing to act as maintainer as Linux-MIPS. > >> development since ages (started with an Olivetti M700 and kernel version >> 2.x) and right now time for doing the jobs isn't issue:-) >> > I noticed that you are mainly working some old machines. > And recently years, there are some new machines from Ingenic, Loongson, MTK etc. > MIPS Inc also have some MIPSr6 IPs. > I think that you need some of these machines. I can provide some new Ingenic platform machines as a gift to Thomas. Ingenic X1000 can be provided in a short time, it has been directly supported by kernel 5.6. X1830 and X2000 will be available later. > In the last years, we see that the single maintainer is not enough as people may > quite busy. > Do you think that we need co-maintainers? > >> Thomas. >> >> -- >> Crap can work. Given enough thrust pigs will fly, but it's not necessarily a >> good idea. [ RFC1925, 2.3 ] > >
Zhou Yanjie <zhouyanjie@wanyeetech.com> 于2020年2月20日周四 下午8:40写道： > > Hi, > > CC people from Ingenic Semi and Wanyee Tech. > > On 2020年02月20日 20:11, YunQiang Su wrote: > > CC people from NeoCore and CIP United, and my Wave Computing's mail address. > > > > Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> 于2020年2月20日周四 下午7:23写道： > >> On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 11:17:30AM -0800, Paul Burton wrote: > >>> My time with MIPS the company has reached its end, and so at best I'll > >>> have little time spend on maintaining arch/mips/. Reflect that in > >>> MAINTAINERS by changing status to Odd Fixes. Hopefully this might spur > >>> the involvement of someone with more time, but even if not it should > >>> help serve to avoid unrealistic expectations. > >> I'd like to jump in as MIPS maintainer. I'm doing Linux MIPS kernel > > It is a great news that you are willing to act as maintainer as Linux-MIPS. > > > >> development since ages (started with an Olivetti M700 and kernel version > >> 2.x) and right now time for doing the jobs isn't issue:-) > >> > > I noticed that you are mainly working some old machines. > > And recently years, there are some new machines from Ingenic, Loongson, MTK etc. > > MIPS Inc also have some MIPSr6 IPs. > > I think that you need some of these machines. > > I can provide some new Ingenic platform machines as a gift to Thomas. > Ingenic X1000 can be provided in a short time, it has been directly > supported by kernel 5.6. > X1830 and X2000 will be available later. > > > In the last years, we see that the single maintainer is not enough as people may > > quite busy. > > Do you think that we need co-maintainers? Paul Cercueil also has interest about it. That's so cool. As a suggestion, I think that we can have a maintainers team: Option1: Paul Cercueil/Thomas Bogendoerfer/Jiaxun Yang Option2: Thomas Bogendoerfer/Paul Cercueil/Jiaxun Yang any idea? background: 1. PaulC works lots for Ingenic support. 2. Thomas works lots for some SGI IP and some other hardware 3. Jiaxun works lots for Loongson hardware. > > > >> Thomas. > >> > >> -- > >> Crap can work. Given enough thrust pigs will fly, but it's not necessarily a > >> good idea. [ RFC1925, 2.3 ] > > > > >
Hi, On 2020年02月21日 01:01, YunQiang Su wrote: > Zhou Yanjie <zhouyanjie@wanyeetech.com> 于2020年2月20日周四 下午8:40写道： >> Hi, >> >> CC people from Ingenic Semi and Wanyee Tech. >> >> On 2020年02月20日 20:11, YunQiang Su wrote: >>> CC people from NeoCore and CIP United, and my Wave Computing's mail address. >>> >>> Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> 于2020年2月20日周四 下午7:23写道： >>>> On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 11:17:30AM -0800, Paul Burton wrote: >>>>> My time with MIPS the company has reached its end, and so at best I'll >>>>> have little time spend on maintaining arch/mips/. Reflect that in >>>>> MAINTAINERS by changing status to Odd Fixes. Hopefully this might spur >>>>> the involvement of someone with more time, but even if not it should >>>>> help serve to avoid unrealistic expectations. >>>> I'd like to jump in as MIPS maintainer. I'm doing Linux MIPS kernel >>> It is a great news that you are willing to act as maintainer as Linux-MIPS. >>> >>>> development since ages (started with an Olivetti M700 and kernel version >>>> 2.x) and right now time for doing the jobs isn't issue:-) >>>> >>> I noticed that you are mainly working some old machines. >>> And recently years, there are some new machines from Ingenic, Loongson, MTK etc. >>> MIPS Inc also have some MIPSr6 IPs. >>> I think that you need some of these machines. >> I can provide some new Ingenic platform machines as a gift to Thomas. >> Ingenic X1000 can be provided in a short time, it has been directly >> supported by kernel 5.6. >> X1830 and X2000 will be available later. >> >>> In the last years, we see that the single maintainer is not enough as people may >>> quite busy. >>> Do you think that we need co-maintainers? > Paul Cercueil also has interest about it. That's so cool. > > As a suggestion, I think that we can have a maintainers team: > > Option1: Paul Cercueil/Thomas Bogendoerfer/Jiaxun Yang > Option2: Thomas Bogendoerfer/Paul Cercueil/Jiaxun Yang > > any idea? > > background: > 1. PaulC works lots for Ingenic support. > 2. Thomas works lots for some SGI IP and some other hardware > 3. Jiaxun works lots for Loongson hardware. > How about the three maintainer have equal rights but different emphasis. They can jointly maintain the common code parts, and they all have the veto power to ensure that new changes will not affect other platforms. And they can have a greater say in their respective focus departments, because each maintainer has corresponding hardware in hand, which can ensure that the code is tested and can run correctly. BTW, as a developer of the Ingenic platform, I can donate the hardware of the Ingenic platform to the other two maintainers so that any one of the three maintainer can effectively verify the code of the Ingenic platform. > >>>> Thomas. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Crap can work. Given enough thrust pigs will fly, but it's not necessarily a >>>> good idea. [ RFC1925, 2.3 ] >>> >
On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 08:11:08PM +0800, YunQiang Su wrote: > I noticed that you are mainly working some old machines. > And recently years, there are some new machines from Ingenic, Loongson, MTK etc. > MIPS Inc also have some MIPSr6 IPs. > I think that you need some of these machines. sure, it would be helpfull. And with a reasonable price I have no problem buying a new machine. But IMHO it's not mandatory for a maintainer to have all supported hardware available. > In the last years, we see that the single maintainer is not enough as > people may quite busy. > Do you think that we need co-maintainers? Looking at the number of patches in arch/mips for the last few release cylces we were always in the range of 100-150 commits. So I don't see a need for a co-maintainer, but having backup maintainer(s) is a good thing. For me maintaining means - keep MIPS archicture alive (legacy and newer stuff) - collecting patches and integrating them into a git tree for pulling - send pull requests to Linus in a timely manner - review/comment patches - give guidance on how to do abstractions inside MIPS arch code Some personal background - doing Linux/MIPS coding since 1995 - worked as system architect for OS development with MIPS 4kec, 24k, 34k based embedded systems - working now for SUSE in kernel network driver area (with enough time for other open source projects) Thomas.
Hi, So I think Thomas is the best candidate to be maintainer, since he has both experience and free time ;) I'm sort-of the maintainer for the Ingenic platform and drivers, if Jiaxun wants to do the same for Loongson hardware, that would make Thomas' job easier. Having three co-maintainers with equal rights would be a total mess. -Paul Le mer., févr. 19, 2020 at 11:17, Paul Burton <paulburton@kernel.org> a écrit : > My time with MIPS the company has reached its end, and so at best I'll > have little time spend on maintaining arch/mips/. Reflect that in > MAINTAINERS by changing status to Odd Fixes. Hopefully this might spur > the involvement of someone with more time, but even if not it should > help serve to avoid unrealistic expectations. > > Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paulburton@kernel.org> > --- > MAINTAINERS | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS > index afa228ade18e..67f05f6dbf77 100644 > --- a/MAINTAINERS > +++ b/MAINTAINERS > @@ -11120,7 +11120,7 @@ W: http://www.linux-mips.org/ > T: git git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/linux.git > T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mips/linux.git > Q: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/project/linux-mips/list/ > -S: Supported > +S: Odd Fixes > F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mips/ > F: Documentation/mips/ > F: arch/mips/
于 2020年2月23日 GMT+08:00 上午12:08:39, Paul Cercueil <paul@crapouillou.net> 写到: >Hi, > >So I think Thomas is the best candidate to be maintainer, since he has >both experience and free time ;) So do I! > >I'm sort-of the maintainer for the Ingenic platform and drivers, if >Jiaxun wants to do the same for Loongson hardware, that would make >Thomas' job easier. Having three co-maintainers with equal rights would > >be a total mess. Sure. I'm still going to take care Loongson code. Probably we can help with reviewing MIPS common code too. Thanks > >-Paul > > >Le mer., févr. 19, 2020 at 11:17, Paul Burton <paulburton@kernel.org> >a écrit : >> My time with MIPS the company has reached its end, and so at best >I'll >> have little time spend on maintaining arch/mips/. Reflect that in >> MAINTAINERS by changing status to Odd Fixes. Hopefully this might >spur >> the involvement of someone with more time, but even if not it should >> help serve to avoid unrealistic expectations. >> >> Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paulburton@kernel.org> >> --- >> MAINTAINERS | 2 +- >> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) >> >> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS >> index afa228ade18e..67f05f6dbf77 100644 >> --- a/MAINTAINERS >> +++ b/MAINTAINERS >> @@ -11120,7 +11120,7 @@ W: http://www.linux-mips.org/ >> T: git git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/linux.git >> T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mips/linux.git >> Q: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/project/linux-mips/list/ >> -S: Supported >> +S: Odd Fixes >> F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mips/ >> F: Documentation/mips/ >> F: arch/mips/
On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 5:08 PM Paul Cercueil <paul@crapouillou.net> wrote: > > Hi, > > So I think Thomas is the best candidate to be maintainer, since he has > both experience and free time ;) > > I'm sort-of the maintainer for the Ingenic platform and drivers, if > Jiaxun wants to do the same for Loongson hardware, that would make > Thomas' job easier. Having three co-maintainers with equal rights would > be a total mess. You might want to add yourself a R: entry in MAINTAINERS, to be listed as designated reviewer on the Ingenic patches. (Similarly for Jiaxun with Loongson). > > -Paul > > > Le mer., févr. 19, 2020 at 11:17, Paul Burton <paulburton@kernel.org> > a écrit : > > My time with MIPS the company has reached its end, and so at best I'll > > have little time spend on maintaining arch/mips/. Reflect that in > > MAINTAINERS by changing status to Odd Fixes. Hopefully this might spur > > the involvement of someone with more time, but even if not it should > > help serve to avoid unrealistic expectations. > > > > Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paulburton@kernel.org> > > --- > > MAINTAINERS | 2 +- > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS > > index afa228ade18e..67f05f6dbf77 100644 > > --- a/MAINTAINERS > > +++ b/MAINTAINERS > > @@ -11120,7 +11120,7 @@ W: http://www.linux-mips.org/ > > T: git git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/linux.git > > T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mips/linux.git > > Q: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/project/linux-mips/list/ > > -S: Supported > > +S: Odd Fixes > > F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mips/ > > F: Documentation/mips/ > > F: arch/mips/ > >
On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 01:08:39PM -0300, Paul Cercueil wrote: > So I think Thomas is the best candidate to be maintainer, since he has both > experience and free time ;) > > I'm sort-of the maintainer for the Ingenic platform and drivers, if Jiaxun > wants to do the same for Loongson hardware, that would make Thomas' job > easier. Having three co-maintainers with equal rights would be a total mess. perfect for me, thank you for your support. Thomas.
Hi Philippe, Le lun., févr. 24, 2020 at 09:37, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org> a écrit : > On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 5:08 PM Paul Cercueil <paul@crapouillou.net> > wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> So I think Thomas is the best candidate to be maintainer, since he >> has >> both experience and free time ;) >> >> I'm sort-of the maintainer for the Ingenic platform and drivers, if >> Jiaxun wants to do the same for Loongson hardware, that would make >> Thomas' job easier. Having three co-maintainers with equal rights >> would >> be a total mess. > > You might want to add yourself a R: entry in MAINTAINERS, to be listed > as designated reviewer on the Ingenic patches. > (Similarly for Jiaxun with Loongson). I'm in there already as a M: entry. -Paul >> >> Le mer., févr. 19, 2020 at 11:17, Paul Burton >> <paulburton@kernel.org> >> a écrit : >> > My time with MIPS the company has reached its end, and so at best >> I'll >> > have little time spend on maintaining arch/mips/. Reflect that in >> > MAINTAINERS by changing status to Odd Fixes. Hopefully this might >> spur >> > the involvement of someone with more time, but even if not it >> should >> > help serve to avoid unrealistic expectations. >> > >> > Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paulburton@kernel.org> >> > --- >> > MAINTAINERS | 2 +- >> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) >> > >> > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS >> > index afa228ade18e..67f05f6dbf77 100644 >> > --- a/MAINTAINERS >> > +++ b/MAINTAINERS >> > @@ -11120,7 +11120,7 @@ W: http://www.linux-mips.org/ >> > T: git git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/linux.git >> > T: git >> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mips/linux.git >> > Q: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/project/linux-mips/list/ >> > -S: Supported >> > +S: Odd Fixes >> > F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mips/ >> > F: Documentation/mips/ >> > F: arch/mips/ >> >>
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index afa228ade18e..67f05f6dbf77 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -11120,7 +11120,7 @@ W: http://www.linux-mips.org/ T: git git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/linux.git T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mips/linux.git Q: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/project/linux-mips/list/ -S: Supported +S: Odd Fixes F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mips/ F: Documentation/mips/ F: arch/mips/
My time with MIPS the company has reached its end, and so at best I'll have little time spend on maintaining arch/mips/. Reflect that in MAINTAINERS by changing status to Odd Fixes. Hopefully this might spur the involvement of someone with more time, but even if not it should help serve to avoid unrealistic expectations. Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paulburton@kernel.org> --- MAINTAINERS | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)