> > Since the topic has come up, what is the process for vetting a > > maintainer? > > Well, I can tell you the process I went through in becoming a > co-maintainer for the ARM target (about a year or so ago now). > Basically I started out by doing a bunch of work that seemed > to need doing and that nobody else was doing at the time: > * submitting patches to fix various bugs > * reviewing patches other people sent to the list > * generally taking part in discussions on list and irc > * collecting up patches and making sure they didn't get > forgotten > * progressing to putting together a tree and starting to > send pull-request emails > and about the last thing was getting the MAINTAINERS file > changed to add my name. > If there was a formal vetting process I didn't notice it :-)
This could be put on wiki page so that people who want to be a maintainer know what they should do. :) Regards, chenwj -- Wei-Ren Chen (陳韋任) Computer Systems Lab, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan (R.O.C.) Tel:886-2-2788-3799 #1667 Homepage: http://people.cs.nctu.edu.tw/~chenwj
