Re: [PATCH] VMCI: Update maintainers for VMCI

Tue, 26 Jul 2022 10:11:02 -0700 


> On Jul 26, 2022, at 9:18 AM, Joe Perches <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 2022-07-26 at 15:55 +0000, Vishnu Dasa wrote:
>>> On Jul 26, 2022, at 8:10 AM, Greg KH <[email protected] wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 06:29:25PM +0000, Vishnu Dasa wrote:
>>>>> On Jul 25, 2022, at 11:05 AM, Greg KH <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 09:32:46AM -0700, [email protected] wrote:
>>>>>> From: Vishnu Dasa <[email protected]>
>>>>>> Remove Rajesh as a maintainer for the VMCI driver.
>>>>> Why?
>>>> Rajesh is no longer with VMware and won't be working on VMCI.
>>> 
>>> But employment does not matter for maintainership and has nothing to do
>>> with it. Maintainership follows the person, not the company, you all
>>> know this.
>>> 
>>> So for obvious reasons, I can't take this type of change without
>>> Rajesh acking it.
>> 
>> I understand. After getting in touch with Rajesh, cc'ing him via his
>> personal email ID.
>> 
>> Rajesh, could you please provide your ack if you agree with this patch to
>> remove you as the maintainer for VMCI?
> 
> If being an employee of a company is a criteria for maintainership
> of this subsystem, likely the subsystem entry should be:
> 
> "S: Supported" not "S: Maintained"
> 
> MAINTAINERS:VMWARE VMCI DRIVER
> MAINTAINERS-M: Bryan Tan <[email protected]>
> MAINTAINERS-M: Rajesh Jalisatgi <[email protected]>
> MAINTAINERS-M: Vishnu Dasa <[email protected]>
> MAINTAINERS-R: VMware PV-Drivers Reviewers <[email protected]>
> MAINTAINERS-L: [email protected]
> MAINTAINERS-S: Maintained
> 
> Likely that's true for every VMware entry.
> 
> MAINTAINERS:VMWARE BALLOON DRIVER
> MAINTAINERS-M: Nadav Amit <[email protected]>
> MAINTAINERS-R: VMware PV-Drivers Reviewers <[email protected]>
> MAINTAINERS-L: [email protected]
> MAINTAINERS-S: Maintained
> MAINTAINERS-F: drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c
> MAINTAINERS-
> MAINTAINERS:VMWARE PVRDMA DRIVER
> MAINTAINERS-M: Bryan Tan <[email protected]>
> MAINTAINERS-M: Vishnu Dasa <[email protected]>
> MAINTAINERS-R: VMware PV-Drivers Reviewers <[email protected]>
> MAINTAINERS-L: [email protected]
> MAINTAINERS-S: Maintained
> MAINTAINERS-F: drivers/infiniband/hw/vmw_pvrdma/
> MAINTAINERS-
> MAINTAINERS-VMware PVSCSI driver
> MAINTAINERS-M: Vishal Bhakta <[email protected]>
> MAINTAINERS-R: VMware PV-Drivers Reviewers <[email protected]>
> MAINTAINERS-L: [email protected]
> MAINTAINERS-S: Maintained
> MAINTAINERS-F: drivers/scsi/vmw_pvscsi.c
> MAINTAINERS-F: drivers/scsi/vmw_pvscsi.h
> MAINTAINERS-
> MAINTAINERS:VMWARE VMMOUSE SUBDRIVER
> MAINTAINERS-M: Zack Rusin <[email protected]>
> MAINTAINERS-R: VMware Graphics Reviewers 
> <[email protected]>
> MAINTAINERS-R: VMware PV-Drivers Reviewers <[email protected]>
> MAINTAINERS-L: [email protected]
> MAINTAINERS-S: Maintained
> MAINTAINERS-F: drivers/input/mouse/vmmouse.c
> MAINTAINERS-F: drivers/input/mouse/vmmouse.h
> MAINTAINERS-
> MAINTAINERS:VMWARE VMXNET3 ETHERNET DRIVER
> MAINTAINERS-M: Ronak Doshi <[email protected]>
> MAINTAINERS-R: VMware PV-Drivers Reviewers <[email protected]>
> MAINTAINERS-L: [email protected]
> MAINTAINERS-S: Maintained
> MAINTAINERS-F: drivers/net/vmxnet3/
> MAINTAINERS-

Thanks for pointing that out.  Will discuss this with others and send a separate
patch out.

Thanks,
Vishnu
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