[RFC] Add co-maintainer for fbdev

Hi Florian,

	As you seems very busy I'd like to propose the help you to handle the
	fbdev subsystem to easier the rich of the fbdev patch to Linus

	As I'm working on fbdev on at91 and others and already Co-Maintain the
	at91 mach on ARM

	And if you are not willing to continue I could take over

Best Regards,
J.

[+akpm]

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
[off-list ref] wrote:

Hi Florian,

        As you seems very busy I'd like to propose the help you to handle the
        fbdev subsystem to easier the rich of the fbdev patch to Linus

        As I'm working on fbdev on at91 and others and already Co-Maintain the
        at91 mach on ARM

        And if you are not willing to continue I could take over

Andrew has been fallback fbdev maintainer for a while, we have the
option of formalizing that as well. Adding him on cc so he sees this.


-Olof

On Friday 24 May 2013, Olof Johansson wrote:

[+akpm]

[+florian]

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Hi Florian,

        As you seems very busy I'd like to propose the help you to handle the
        fbdev subsystem to easier the rich of the fbdev patch to Linus

        As I'm working on fbdev on at91 and others and already Co-Maintain the
        at91 mach on ARM

        And if you are not willing to continue I could take over

Andrew has been fallback fbdev maintainer for a while, we have the
option of formalizing that as well. Adding him on cc so he sees this.

It seems that Florian himself was missing on Cc too, probably by accident.

I would certainly welcome Jean-Christophe to step in for fbdev, since I
frequently have trivial patches for the subsystem, either from myself
or one of the subarch maintainers, and it would be helpful to get feedback
on them in order to merge them through arm-soc when they depend on other
patches we carry, or to have them picked up into a git tree.

	Arnd

Hi Jean-Christophe,

On 05/24/2013 06:56 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

On Friday 24 May 2013, Olof Johansson wrote:

quoted

[+akpm]

[+florian]

Thanks for CC'ing me. Lately I got dropped frequently from the
mailinglist (after 1 or 2 days). Guess I should try subscribing via my
own mail server.

quoted

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Hi Florian,

        As you seems very busy I'd like to propose the help you to handle the
        fbdev subsystem to easier the rich of the fbdev patch to Linus

        As I'm working on fbdev on at91 and others and already Co-Maintain the
        at91 mach on ARM

        And if you are not willing to continue I could take over

Yeah, it would be great if you could help, at the moment I get barely
any sleep, let alone that I could keep up with the majority of mail I
get. I'll let you decide whether you want to be sole maintainer or not.
I still have interest in the subsystem, but it looks like VIA won't
provide any information for their new VX11 chipset IGP for any open
source driver and I'm still looking for a small, quiet mobile device as
a replacement for my precious netbook that broke down last autumn to
allow me working when I'm not at home.

quoted

Andrew has been fallback fbdev maintainer for a while, we have the
option of formalizing that as well. Adding him on cc so he sees this.

At this point I'd like to thank all people who have helped out so far,
especially Tomi and Andrew.


Best regards,

Florian Tobias Schandinat

Hi Jean-Christophe,

quoted

quoted

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Hi Florian,

        As you seems very busy I'd like to propose the help you to handle the
        fbdev subsystem to easier the rich of the fbdev patch to Linus

        As I'm working on fbdev on at91 and others and already Co-Maintain the
        at91 mach on ARM

        And if you are not willing to continue I could take over

I've been collecting fbdev patches for the latest merge windows, so that
Linus doesn't get tons of small separate pull requests. But I haven't
been very proactive with that, and I don't think I have time to really
maintain fbdev.

So I'd also welcome somebody stepping up and taking taking on the
maintainership of fbdev.

 Tomi

Ps. I already have a few patches for 3.10 and for 3.11. I'll send them
to you.

On Monday, May 27, 2013 4:50 PM, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:

Hi Jean-Christophe,

quoted

quoted

quoted

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Hi Florian,

        As you seems very busy I'd like to propose the help you to handle the
        fbdev subsystem to easier the rich of the fbdev patch to Linus

        As I'm working on fbdev on at91 and others and already Co-Maintain the
        at91 mach on ARM

        And if you are not willing to continue I could take over

I've been collecting fbdev patches for the latest merge windows, so that
Linus doesn't get tons of small separate pull requests. But I haven't
been very proactive with that, and I don't think I have time to really
maintain fbdev.

Hi Tomi,

I really thank you for your previous efforts.
Actually, I thought that you're a good fit for fbdev.

So I'd also welcome somebody stepping up and taking taking on the
maintainership of fbdev.

Hi Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD,

I agree with Tomi's opinion.
If you take the maintainership of fbdev, it will be very helpful.


Best regards,
Jingoo Han

 Tomi

Ps. I already have a few patches for 3.10 and for 3.11. I'll send them
to you.

On 10:49 Mon 27 May     , Tomi Valkeinen wrote:

Hi Jean-Christophe,

quoted

quoted

quoted

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Hi Florian,

        As you seems very busy I'd like to propose the help you to handle the
        fbdev subsystem to easier the rich of the fbdev patch to Linus

        As I'm working on fbdev on at91 and others and already Co-Maintain the
        at91 mach on ARM

        And if you are not willing to continue I could take over

I've been collecting fbdev patches for the latest merge windows, so that
Linus doesn't get tons of small separate pull requests. But I haven't
been very proactive with that, and I don't think I have time to really
maintain fbdev.

So I'd also welcome somebody stepping up and taking taking on the
maintainership of fbdev.

 Tomi

Ps. I already have a few patches for 3.10 and for 3.11. I'll send them
to you.

Just send a pull request

for the 3.10 ASAP the 3.11 later I've ask a tree on kernel.org I'll then
request an inclusion on linux-next

Best Regards,
J.

On 23:41 Sun 26 May     , Florian Tobias Schandinat wrote:

Hi Jean-Christophe,

On 05/24/2013 06:56 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

quoted

On Friday 24 May 2013, Olof Johansson wrote:

quoted

[+akpm]

[+florian]

Thanks for CC'ing me. Lately I got dropped frequently from the
mailinglist (after 1 or 2 days). Guess I should try subscribing via my
own mail server.

quoted

quoted

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Hi Florian,

        As you seems very busy I'd like to propose the help you to handle the
        fbdev subsystem to easier the rich of the fbdev patch to Linus

        As I'm working on fbdev on at91 and others and already Co-Maintain the
        at91 mach on ARM

        And if you are not willing to continue I could take over

Yeah, it would be great if you could help, at the moment I get barely
any sleep, let alone that I could keep up with the majority of mail I
get. I'll let you decide whether you want to be sole maintainer or not.

I'd like to have feed back from others on this

I still have interest in the subsystem, but it looks like VIA won't
provide any information for their new VX11 chipset IGP for any open
source driver and I'm still looking for a small, quiet mobile device as
a replacement for my precious netbook that broke down last autumn to
allow me working when I'm not at home.

I personnaly use a MacBook Air 11" with a powerpack to extend it to 15h of
battery

quoted

quoted

Andrew has been fallback fbdev maintainer for a while, we have the
option of formalizing that as well. Adding him on cc so he sees this.

At this point I'd like to thank all people who have helped out so far,
especially Tomi and Andrew.


Best regards,

Florian Tobias Schandinat

On Monday 27 May 2013, Florian Tobias Schandinat wrote:

quoted

quoted

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Hi Florian,

        As you seems very busy I'd like to propose the help you to handle the
        fbdev subsystem to easier the rich of the fbdev patch to Linus

        As I'm working on fbdev on at91 and others and already Co-Maintain the
        at91 mach on ARM

        And if you are not willing to continue I could take over

Yeah, it would be great if you could help, at the moment I get barely
any sleep, let alone that I could keep up with the majority of mail I
get. I'll let you decide whether you want to be sole maintainer or not.

For any bigger subsystems, it's good practice to have two maintainers,
even if one of them does all the work. I think it makes sense to have
Jean-Christophe as the primary maintainer and owner of the git tree,
but it may also be good to have you or Tomi listed as a second maintainer
for times when Jean-Christophe isn't available.

I don't know how many patches you'd expect per release, maybe just one
person is enough after all.

	Arnd

On 23:19 Tue 28 May     , Arnd Bergmann wrote:

On Monday 27 May 2013, Florian Tobias Schandinat wrote:

quoted

quoted

quoted

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Hi Florian,

        As you seems very busy I'd like to propose the help you to handle the
        fbdev subsystem to easier the rich of the fbdev patch to Linus

        As I'm working on fbdev on at91 and others and already Co-Maintain the
        at91 mach on ARM

        And if you are not willing to continue I could take over

Yeah, it would be great if you could help, at the moment I get barely
any sleep, let alone that I could keep up with the majority of mail I
get. I'll let you decide whether you want to be sole maintainer or not.

For any bigger subsystems, it's good practice to have two maintainers,
even if one of them does all the work. I think it makes sense to have
Jean-Christophe as the primary maintainer and owner of the git tree,
but it may also be good to have you or Tomi listed as a second maintainer
for times when Jean-Christophe isn't available.

I agree with Arnd

As example I'll be mostly off first week of June.


Tomi Florian what do you think

I plan to send the patch + PULL to Linus end of this week before I work-off

For the record the new git tree is here

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/plagnioj/linux-fbdev.git

Best Regrds,
J.

On Wednesday, May 29, 2013 6:20 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

On Monday 27 May 2013, Florian Tobias Schandinat wrote:

quoted

quoted

quoted

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Hi Florian,

        As you seems very busy I'd like to propose the help you to handle the
        fbdev subsystem to easier the rich of the fbdev patch to Linus

        As I'm working on fbdev on at91 and others and already Co-Maintain the
        at91 mach on ARM

        And if you are not willing to continue I could take over

Yeah, it would be great if you could help, at the moment I get barely
any sleep, let alone that I could keep up with the majority of mail I
get. I'll let you decide whether you want to be sole maintainer or not.

For any bigger subsystems, it's good practice to have two maintainers,
even if one of them does all the work. I think it makes sense to have
Jean-Christophe as the primary maintainer and owner of the git tree,
but it may also be good to have you or Tomi listed as a second maintainer
for times when Jean-Christophe isn't available.

Hi Arnd,

I agree with Arnd's opinion.
It looks good to have Florian or Tomi listed as a second maintainer.


Best regards,
Jingoo Han

I don't know how many patches you'd expect per release, maybe just one
person is enough after all.

	Arnd
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On Wed, 29 May 2013 10:32:08 +0900 Jingoo Han [off-list ref] wrote:

On Wednesday, May 29, 2013 6:20 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

quoted

On Monday 27 May 2013, Florian Tobias Schandinat wrote:

quoted

quoted

quoted

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Hi Florian,

        As you seems very busy I'd like to propose the help you to handle the
        fbdev subsystem to easier the rich of the fbdev patch to Linus

        As I'm working on fbdev on at91 and others and already Co-Maintain the
        at91 mach on ARM

        And if you are not willing to continue I could take over

Yeah, it would be great if you could help, at the moment I get barely
any sleep, let alone that I could keep up with the majority of mail I
get. I'll let you decide whether you want to be sole maintainer or not.

For any bigger subsystems, it's good practice to have two maintainers,
even if one of them does all the work. I think it makes sense to have
Jean-Christophe as the primary maintainer and owner of the git tree,
but it may also be good to have you or Tomi listed as a second maintainer
for times when Jean-Christophe isn't available.

Hi Arnd,

I agree with Arnd's opinion.
It looks good to have Florian or Tomi listed as a second maintainer.

Someone send a patch!

On 13:53 Wed 29 May     , Andrew Morton wrote:

On Wed, 29 May 2013 10:32:08 +0900 Jingoo Han [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

On Wednesday, May 29, 2013 6:20 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

quoted

On Monday 27 May 2013, Florian Tobias Schandinat wrote:

quoted

quoted

quoted

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Hi Florian,

        As you seems very busy I'd like to propose the help you to handle the
        fbdev subsystem to easier the rich of the fbdev patch to Linus

        As I'm working on fbdev on at91 and others and already Co-Maintain the
        at91 mach on ARM

        And if you are not willing to continue I could take over

Yeah, it would be great if you could help, at the moment I get barely
any sleep, let alone that I could keep up with the majority of mail I
get. I'll let you decide whether you want to be sole maintainer or not.

For any bigger subsystems, it's good practice to have two maintainers,
even if one of them does all the work. I think it makes sense to have
Jean-Christophe as the primary maintainer and owner of the git tree,
but it may also be good to have you or Tomi listed as a second maintainer
for times when Jean-Christophe isn't available.

Hi Arnd,

I agree with Arnd's opinion.
It looks good to have Florian or Tomi listed as a second maintainer.

Someone send a patch!

Olof notice on IRC
It was me I use git-send-email but the From was scrued and my name  disapear
in the From

I resend it

Can I have you ack on it?

Best Regards,
J.

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