Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: ARM: EXYNOS: Add Krzysztof Kozlowski asco-maintainer

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

2015-05-15 1:45 GMT+09:00 Olof Johansson <olof@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 8:52 AM, Kevin Hilman <khilman@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Tobias Jakobi <liquid.acid@xxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>>> Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
>>>> Hello Kukjin,
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 3:00 PM, Kukjin Kim <kgene@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> On 05/14/15 21:15, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>>>>>> Add Krzysztof Kozlowski as a co-maintainer of Samsung Exynos ARM
>>>>>> architecture to review the patches. Patches will go as usual - picked up
>>>>>> by Kukjin Kim.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Krzysztof,
>>>>>
>>>>> Sorry, I don't agree with this patch because you can review any exynos
>>>>> patches without maintainer title. And I can focus on the maintainer'r
>>>>> role more than now because of change of role ;-) Of course your review
>>>>> would be helpful to me.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sorry but I disagree. Krzysztof has been very active reviewing Exynos
>>>> patches and even picking/queuing important fixes while it seems you
>>>> were too busy and couldn't pay close attention.
>>> I would even go further than that. We're in this situation because the
>>> current maintainer didn't do his job properly.
>>>
>>> I want to point out what gregkh once said about this matter:
>>> https://youtu.be/iiED1K98lnw?t=1745
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> It's really great that due a role change you will have more time to
>>>> focus on the maintainership but I don't see why having more
>>>> maintainers could be something negative. As long as you work in a
>>>> coordinate manner, the more maintainers we have the better IMHO. It
>>>> may be that in the future you change your role at your company again
>>>> and then it will be good to have something else to take care of the
>>>> posted patches ;-)
>>> I very much agree with Javier here. Krzysztof promptly responds to
>>> patches and usually provides detailed feedback when things need changes.
>>> It would be stupid not to accept him as an additional maintainer.
>>
>> I'll take this as an Acked-by then.
>>
>> FWIW, I agree with Tobias and Javier, extra help for exynos has been
>> sorely needed for a long time, and I am very happy to see someone
>> stepping up to help.  Thank you Krzysztof!  (and I apologize in advance
>> for the many times I'm likely to misspell your name ;)
>>
>> I'll be applying this to the arm-soc tree,
>
> I agree, I think it's a great improvement to get another official
> maintainer of Samsung's platforms that can share the load and send us
> code.
>
> While I often also use the argument that anyone can help review code
> without being named a maintainer, in the particular case of Exynos
> platforms there's a dire need for more close attention: They're
> frequently broken for long periods of time and there's been high
> latency for fixes, which has made bisecting hard or impossible for new
> failures. Naming Krzysztof as co-maintainer makes it more clear that
> we're happy to merge code from him directly as appropriate for latency
> reasons and so on.
>
> So:
>
> Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@xxxxxxxxx>

Thank you Javier, Tobias, Kevin and Olof for your support.
Receiving patches directly to the mailbox should help in smooth review
although my gmail filters work quite good to grab them from the lists.

P.S. Kevin, the hardest part would be to pronounce my name, but
fortunately there is a nice English version of it - Christopher. :)

Best regards,
Krzysztof
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