Re: [PATCH 2/2] MAINTAINERS: add rust bindings entry for bitmap API

[Yury Norov]

On Sat, Feb 22, 2025 at 02:50:50PM +0100, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 9:57 PM Yury Norov <yury.norov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Bitmap developers do their best to keep the API stable. When API or
> > user-visible behavior needs to be changed such that it breaks rust,
> > bitmap and rust developers collaborate as follows:
> 
> If I understand correctly, you are proposing to a "temporarily stable
> API", i.e. to add new APIs while keeping old ones for a bit until the
> Rust side updates to the new one (including perhaps workarounds in the
> helpers when needed). Is that correct?

Yes. Keeping them under CONFIG_RUST for a while, or moving directly to
rust helpers would be an option.

> In other words, while the entry is about the helpers file, the policy
> is about all APIs (since some APIs are called directly), right?

Yes, it's about all functions used by rust. I can underline it in
the commit message. 
 
> (Up to you, Viresh et al., of course, i.e. I am just trying to follow)

What I want to make clear to my contributors is that lack of proficiency
in rust will never become a problem for them. If they have an improvement
that may break something on rust side, there will be someone who will take
care of it - this way or another.

I think rust developers need similar guarantees form rust maintainers:
there will be a rust engineer who will keep the bindings on rust side in
a good shape. Viresh, as per my understanding, has committed on that.

Thanks,
Yury