Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 4/5] Change x86 paging/sharing to 'Orphaned'.

[Tim Deegan <tim@xxxxxxx>]

At 13:33 -0400 on 23 Jun (1435066410), Lengyel, Tamas wrote:
> That's indeed sad. I'm actively using the sharing system in my tools and
> have a couple branches laying around for improving it, like batch
> memsharing for example to support flash-cloning. Now that it's orphaned,
> how would I go about merging these into mainline?

I think you volunteer as a maintainer. :)  Even as a maintainer you'll
need some review from someone else for your own patches, but that will
be easier to find if you're maintaining the code.

Tim.

> I'm not yet confident
> enough in my understanding of the whole sharing system to volunteer as
> maintainer and my tool-side stuff is also very experimental..
> 
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 12:56 PM, Andres Lagar Cavilla <
> andres@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 6:22 AM, Tim Deegan <tim@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> This code now has no active maintainers, as neither Andres nor I
> >> can commit the time.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Tim Deegan <tim@xxxxxxx>
> >> Cc: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andres@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> > Wistfully, Acked-by: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andres@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> >> ---
> >>  MAINTAINERS | 4 +---
> >>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> >> index 7f0e96e..d1bec17 100644
> >> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> >> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> >> @@ -367,9 +367,7 @@ S:  Supported
> >>  F:     xen/arch/x86/mm/
> >>
> >>  X86 MEMORY SHARING AND PAGING
> >> -M:     Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andres@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> -M:     Tim Deegan <tim@xxxxxxx>
> >> -S:     Supported
> >> +S:     Orphaned
> >>  F:     xen/arch/x86/mm/mem_sharing.c
> >>  F:     xen/arch/x86/mm/mem_paging.c
> >>  F:     tools/memshr
> >> --
> >> 2.3.3
> >>
> >>
> >
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