andrzej zaborowski wrote: > 2009/12/1 Alexander Graf <ag...@suse.de>: > >> Maintainership for a subsystem is completely different from "feeling >> responsible for patches". You can be the person checking stuff in without >> knowing anything about the subsystem. If it breaks, have the community fix >> it. If it stays broken and nobody cares, remove the subsystem. >> > > If it leads to removing the subsystem then it's not much gain for the > project and the users :) > > I don't know of any succesful project that has maintainers who don't > feel responsible for the code they're comming. >
Well the point I was trying to make is that committer != maintainer. Avi commits PPC/S390 kvm stuff all the time without knowing the architectures inside out ;). Alex
