Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add DornerWorks maintainers email

[Jeff Kubascik <jeff.kubascik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/21/2019 7:43 AM, Wei Liu wrote:
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> On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 12:29:45PM +0100, George Dunlap wrote:
>> On 8/30/19 10:28 AM, Wei Liu wrote:
>>> On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 10:08:55AM -0400, Jeff Kubascik wrote:
>>>> We would like to have a common maintainers email address for DornerWorks
>>>> maintained code, which currently is the ARINC653 scheduler. This will
>>>> enable us to better monitor and respond to the Xen community. This patch
>>>> adds a maintainer line with the DornerWorks maintainers email address.
>>>> ---
>>>>  MAINTAINERS | 1 +
>>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
>>>> index 77413e0d9e..3cce253931 100644
>>>> --- a/MAINTAINERS
>>>> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
>>>> @@ -168,6 +168,7 @@ F:     xen/common/argo.c
>>>>  ARINC653 SCHEDULER
>>>>  M:        Josh Whitehead <josh.whitehead@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>  M:        Robert VanVossen <robert.vanvossen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> +M:        DornerWorks Xen-Devel <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> The correct symbol here is L.
>>>
>>>     L: Mailing list that is relevant to this area
>>
>> But this isn't exactly a mailing list, is it?  The 'L:' tag is normally
>> for things like the Linux Arm mailing list, the Linux Net mailing list,
>> and so on -- *public* lists where discussions about that subsystem happen.
>>
>> This isn't a public list where discussion happens.  At the moment, in
>> fact, it looks like it might be a *single email account*, to which
>> several people have access; at best it would be an alias that would go
>> to a number of interested parties.  That seems closer to 'R:'.
>>
>> I admit this is getting into the minutia of technicalities here. :-)
>>
> 
> My understanding is that the list being public is a not a requirement.
> For example, Linux has this:
> 
>   L:      sparmaintainer@xxxxxxxxxx (Unisys internal)
> 
> An alias for several people still qualifies as a list to me.
> 
> Anyway, either R or L works. I don't want to bikeshed further...
> 
> Wei.
> 
>>  -George

We would like to remove our current two developers who are listed as M: for the
ARINC653 scheduler code. Since M: is just a "Mail patches to" designation, I'm
now leaning towards the L: designation, as the two appear roughly equivalent in
their role. Does that sound reasonable?

-Jeff K

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