[MeeGo-dev] Kernel process comment

2010-04-28 Thread Carsten Munk
Hi, I noticed the following lines in http://meego.gitorious.org/meego-os-base/kernel-source/blobs/master/README#line120 : * Unless the author identified in the From: tag has a @intel.com or @linux.intel.com address, the patch must include a Signed-off-by: or Acked-by: header which identifi

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Kernel process comment

2010-04-28 Thread Carsten Munk
At recommendation of Quim, I've submitted this process 'bug' at http://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1459 so we can track it better. Maybe it'd be worth having a category for these kind of bugs/issues in order to help open development around? Regards, Carsten Munk 2010/4/28 Carsten Munk : > Hi,

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Kernel process comment

2010-04-28 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 12:02:57PM +0200, Carsten Munk wrote: > Hi, > > I noticed the following lines in > http://meego.gitorious.org/meego-os-base/kernel-source/blobs/master/README#line120 > : > > * Unless the author identified in the From: tag has a @intel.com or >@linux.intel.com address,

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Kernel process comment

2010-04-28 Thread Carsten Munk
2010/4/28 Greg KH : > On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 12:02:57PM +0200, Carsten Munk wrote: >> Would it be possible to reword this in a manner so it does not sounds >> as biased towards Intel employees? Ie, treating non-member >> contributions with same process and review as member contributions. >> >> A s

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Kernel process comment

2010-04-28 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 05:27:00PM +0200, Carsten Munk wrote: > I would say that is the MeeGo kernel maintainer team, which may > include one or more Intel employees, is the people ultimately > responsible for distribute and maintaining. Since when has anyone proposed a "MeeGo kernel maintainer te

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Kernel process comment

2010-04-28 Thread Bradley Smith
When exactly did Intel solely become responsible for kernel tree? Besides that, why would a MeeGo kernel maintainer team be decided by Intel? Just like everything else, wouldn't it be better making it a proposal for the TSG? Certainly if the MeeGo kernel tree is only maintained by one company this

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Kernel process comment

2010-04-28 Thread Greg KH
A: No. Q: Should I include quotations after my reply? http://daringfireball.net/2007/07/on_top On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 01:35:06AM +0930, Bradley Smith wrote: > When exactly did Intel solely become responsible for kernel tree? Um, since when did they not? > Besides that, why would a MeeGo kernel

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Kernel process comment

2010-04-28 Thread Ameya Palande
Hi Greg, On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 16:59 +0200, ext Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 12:02:57PM +0200, Carsten Munk wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I noticed the following lines in > > http://meego.gitorious.org/meego-os-base/kernel-source/blobs/master/README#line120 > > : > > > > * Unless the autho

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Kernel process comment

2010-04-28 Thread Bradley Smith
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 1:41 AM, Greg KH wrote: > Um, since when did they not? That is obviously a way of avoiding the original question. Where was any decision made by the community or the TSG that Intel was suppose to take sole responsibility of the MeeGo kernel? > How are things "supposed to

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Kernel process comment

2010-04-28 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 02:06:40AM +0930, Bradley Smith wrote: > On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 1:41 AM, Greg KH wrote: > > Um, since when did they not? > > That is obviously a way of avoiding the original question. Where was > any decision made by the community or the TSG that Intel was suppose > to ta

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Kernel process comment

2010-04-28 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 07:28:13PM +0300, Ameya Palande wrote: > > As Intel is ultimately responsible for distributing and maintaining this > > kernel tree, having someone within intel to "own" each patch in the same > > manner makes lots of sense as well. > > In Moblin days this was a perfect arg

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Kernel process comment

2010-04-28 Thread Ameya Palande
Hi Greg, On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 19:19 +0200, ext Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 07:28:13PM +0300, Ameya Palande wrote: > > > As Intel is ultimately responsible for distributing and maintaining this > > > kernel tree, having someone within intel to "own" each patch in the same > > > manner

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Kernel process comment

2010-04-28 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 09:03:15PM +0300, Ameya Palande wrote: > On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 19:19 +0200, ext Greg KH wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 07:28:13PM +0300, Ameya Palande wrote: > > > > As Intel is ultimately responsible for distributing and maintaining this > > > > kernel tree, having some

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Kernel process comment

2010-04-28 Thread Robin Burchell
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Greg KH wrote: >> Naturally all the bugs related to this should be assigned to Nokia >> instead of Intel. So I fail to understand your argument about Intel >> doing all the work and all the kernel bugs being assigned to Intel. > > I'm saying that Intel is currently

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Kernel process comment

2010-04-28 Thread Ameya Palande
Hi Greg, On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 20:10 +0200, ext Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 09:03:15PM +0300, Ameya Palande wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 19:19 +0200, ext Greg KH wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 07:28:13PM +0300, Ameya Palande wrote: > > > > > As Intel is ultimately responsibl

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Kernel process comment

2010-04-28 Thread Robinson Tryon
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Greg KH wrote: > > I'm saying that Intel is currently the owner of the MeeGo kernel > package, and that if you create a bug in the meego bugzilla against the > kernel package, it gets automatically assigned to an Intel developer. ... > Hopefully in the future there

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Kernel process comment

2010-04-28 Thread Robin Burchell
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 7:31 PM, Robinson Tryon wrote: > On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Greg KH wrote: >> >> I'm saying that Intel is currently the owner of the MeeGo kernel >> package, and that if you create a bug in the meego bugzilla against the >> kernel package, it gets automatically assig

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Kernel process comment

2010-04-28 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On 4/28/2010 9:05, Bradley Smith wrote: When exactly did Intel solely become responsible for kernel tree? It's not Intel solely being responsible. But Intel is a large contributor to both the kernel and meego; and obviously many of the meego maintainters will be from Intel, just like many main

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Kernel process comment

2010-04-28 Thread Andrew Flegg
Arjan wrote: > > It's not Intel solely being responsible. > [...] > > Also I don't understand what the beef is. The problem, as I see it, is that *any* Intel employee can bypass the sign-off procedure for the MeeGo kernel, whereas no-one else can. Intel may have internal processes that prevent t

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Kernel process comment

2010-04-28 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On 4/28/2010 13:29, Andrew Flegg wrote: Arjan wrote: It's not Intel solely being responsible. [...] Also I don't understand what the beef is. The problem, as I see it, is that *any* Intel employee can bypass the sign-off procedure for the MeeGo kernel, whereas no-one else can. Intel may

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Kernel process comment

2010-04-29 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Greg KH wrote: > No, not at all. Look at the kernel package, the bugzilla owners of > kernel bugs, and who is doing all the work and "ownership" here. So your argument is that the people who are doing the maintainership of the kernel must sign off on patches to the kernel. That seems perfect

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Kernel process comment

2010-04-29 Thread Riku Voipio
On 04/28/2010 09:10 PM, ext Greg KH wrote: On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 09:03:15PM +0300, Ameya Palande wrote: Naturally all the bugs related to this should be assigned to Nokia instead of Intel. So I fail to understand your argument about Intel doing all the work and all the kernel bugs being assi

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Kernel process comment

2010-04-29 Thread Wang, Yong Y
> -Original Message- > From: meego-dev-boun...@meego.com > [mailto:meego-dev-boun...@meego.com] On Behalf Of Dave Neary > Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 4:06 PM > To: Greg KH > Cc: meego-dev > Subject: Re: [MeeGo-dev] Kernel process comment > > So your argument

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Kernel process comment

2010-04-29 Thread Robin Burchell
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Wang, Yong Y wrote: > Hi Guys, > > This is indeed a documentation bug and we will fix it. No Intel employees > will bypass the process. All changes, including those from Intel employees, > will be scrutinized by MeeGo kernel maintainer team which only consists of

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Kernel process comment

2010-04-29 Thread Poussa Sakari
On 04/28/10 17:59, ext Greg KH wrote: As Intel is ultimately responsible for distributing and maintaining this kernel tree, having someone within intel to "own" each patch in the same manner makes lots of sense as well. This is not true. Where did you get that one ? Nokia and Intel are joint

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Kernel process comment

2010-04-29 Thread Poussa Sakari
On 04/28/10 23:29, ext Andrew Flegg wrote: Arjan wrote: It's not Intel solely being responsible. [...] Also I don't understand what the beef is. The problem, as I see it, is that *any* Intel employee can bypass the sign-off procedure for the MeeGo kernel, whereas no-one else can. Intel

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Kernel process comment

2010-04-29 Thread Poussa Sakari
On 04/28/10 21:39, ext Robin Burchell wrote: On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 7:31 PM, Robinson Tryon wrote: On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Greg KH wrote: I'm saying that Intel is currently the owner of the MeeGo kernel package, and that if you create a bug in the meego bugzilla against the kernel

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Kernel process comment

2010-04-29 Thread Bradley Smith
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 2:47 AM, Greg KH wrote: > I'll throw it back the other way, is there any decision made that all > packages must go through such a process to determine the owner of them? To my knowledge this is suppose to apart of what the TSG covers, and to my knowledge, the TSG is suppos

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Kernel process comment

2010-04-29 Thread Wang, Yong Y
> -Original Message- > From: surreal.w...@gmail.com [mailto:surreal.w...@gmail.com] On Behalf > Of Robin Burchell > Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 10:54 PM > To: Wang, Yong Y > Cc: Dave Neary; Greg KH; meego-dev > Subject: Re: [MeeGo-dev] Kernel process comment > &

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Kernel process comment

2010-04-29 Thread Yin Kangkai
On 2010-04-29, 16:06 +0800, Dave Neary wrote: > What people are taking issue with is that (a) being an employee of Intel > is not sufficient to make you a MeeGo kernel maintainer and (b) in > theory, at least, being an employee of Intel is not required to be a > MeeGo kernel maintainer either. > >

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Kernel process comment

2010-04-29 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 12:03:17PM +0800, Yin Kangkai wrote: > We have no problem to add others outside of Intel into the MeeGo > kernel maintainer team, actually we welcome that, as long as he can > take the responsibilities. Great, how does one go about signing themselves up to do this? thanks,

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Kernel process comment

2010-04-29 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On 4/29/2010 21:16, Greg KH wrote: On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 12:03:17PM +0800, Yin Kangkai wrote: We have no problem to add others outside of Intel into the MeeGo kernel maintainer team, actually we welcome that, as long as he can take the responsibilities. Great, how does one go about signing t

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Kernel process comment

2010-04-30 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > (needs a project structure to be more formalized as well as various > legal contributor agreements created and agreed on by a whole bunch of > lawyers) Why? Isn't the MeeGo kernel GPL v2 too? Or are you talking about an "I certify that I have the authority to submit

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Kernel process comment

2010-04-30 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:17:14PM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On 4/29/2010 21:16, Greg KH wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 12:03:17PM +0800, Yin Kangkai wrote: >>> We have no problem to add others outside of Intel into the MeeGo >>> kernel maintainer team, actually we welcome that, as long a