Adopt a subset of the syntax used in the Linux kernel MAINTAINERS file for expressing maintainership of subsets of the code base. To start, I added a catch-all section and a section for OVN. Other entries will come in later patches so that they can be reviewed independently.
Signed-off-by: Russell Bryant <[email protected]> --- MAINTAINERS | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 50 insertions(+) diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 299e0b5..6000fa6 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -28,3 +28,53 @@ Pravin B Shelar [email protected] Russell Bryant [email protected] Thomas Graf [email protected] YAMAMOTO Takashi [email protected] + +Area Maintainers +---------------- + +Committers often have one or more specific areas of expertise. When changes are +made to these areas of code, these experts are usually the ones to review the +code. Committers may also rely on subject matter experts outside of the +committers group to review certain changes. We use a subset of the same syntax +used in the MAINTAINERS file for the Linux kernel to track maintainers of +specific areas of OVS. + +Descriptions of section entries: + + M: Mail patches to: FullName <address@domain> + (but always also include the mailing list) + R: Designated reviewer: FullName <address@domain> + These reviewers should be CCed on patches. + This can be used to list relevant reviewers that are not committers. + L: Mailing list that is relevant to this area + Q: Patchwork web based patch tracking system site + F: Files and directories with wildcard patterns. + A trailing slash includes all files and subdirectory files. + F: drivers/net/ all files in and below drivers/net + F: drivers/net/* all files in drivers/net, but not below + F: */net/* all files in "any top level directory"/net + One pattern per line. Multiple F: lines acceptable. + N: Files and directories with regex patterns. + N: [^a-z]tegra all files whose path contains the word tegra + One pattern per line. Multiple N: lines acceptable. + X: Files and directories that are NOT maintained, same rules as F: + Files exclusions are tested before file matches. + Can be useful for excluding a specific subdirectory, for instance: + F: net/ + X: net/ipv6/ + matches all files in and below net excluding net/ipv6/ + +OPEN VIRTUAL NETWORK (OVN) +M: Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> +M: Justin Pettit <[email protected]> +M: Russell Bryant <[email protected]> +L: [email protected] +Q: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/openvswitch/list/ +F: ovn/ + +EVERYTHING ELSE +M: Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> +L: [email protected] +Q: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/openvswitch/list/ +F: * +F: */ -- 2.5.0 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
