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Mon, 9 Jun 2025 09:42:37 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2025 09:42:37 -0700 (PDT) From: "Christoph Lameter (Ampere)" To: Lorenzo Stoakes cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" , Vlastimil Babka , David Rientjes , linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton , Harry Yoo Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/10] slab: Fix MAINTAINERS entry In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <5b81c709-7a89-6065-422d-3148aebc78e9@gentwo.org> References: <20250606222214.1395799-1-willy@infradead.org> <20250606222214.1395799-11-willy@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Rspamd-Server: rspam05 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: B9DA0180004 X-Stat-Signature: fdxb1ryyp99bpyerx5rsbsakotorzkgz X-Rspam-User: X-HE-Tag: 1749487358-562519 X-HE-Meta: U2FsdGVkX1/g6ydRanPXe+WT6mgJV0jcGj/+qm0kpvN/4W01ObSQmdVhsITQ4vKZhlls1TuJ7Cqav6zKuOSpPJwGwvnxhGAFbyzA3J92nrcgk0lZiwTKHqDhMUm46HpupGnIIG3Hnie9pHx/OQhJw3cfBCqrR99DOg/Ba2Wf6LO8xT2n15YKCnfUKsv9pgjdxhWxB6hKbiUyRrMAONRNyBn5+rPm4ib8PM/Y1CLwE3s5860IUk3OeiZStqSBkP30X9akvPDds62YjKMfIhUM4fXRfcZrUn2VCvKBxO81vTi3gRUP8a2mji2QKZ2yS+/Cunx/jpUjk64SXg9Z9PCtKJe3qC0G9fW/Gc1kIjLvFgCcrCJAPo5d1bmx+YvMhUZQi7KfMWMNJsEJLo4chlMY0mohQc4PtEgQuFE/LH2Q2Lp3d0QZj968I6dEJQ2WIYJ3PYKbPfn94gzMMRnGhQAsTejt0OnEmbdnPI53rEylavX4tEi4C8VGcSMWCEH+AMHR6OIpv0HBvfKS/YSmWmxb971057U8nIPqmIKYpqa3QWbg12NHEahlGTTM9ozrSeqJ2AFD/E45QpKVIfxVZw+zDV2tUxQRHRvsuN6fiLVfB/Si9AV3drbxVlGoSih+rtVHrbi9ZqKlDOL2XecTDr1QeRMcNWt097ayY3MJ1lIa9aGrW2C7DZ8HrJkyblwvHY/ztJHqvzNcRjXMEo1ku+vhSly2Ta2g05LIRxx7WksKSAPszslKXHWXq1hZGiwJJj75i1cf3LVY911NJMpvRZpQP4cbu072UiwH1ZJ5mIEyw/o24MsDbl7FclKHIniAOoYXh0inHEZ2hk0+G7j2j/OYvG1BgiZCN/9bs7gvfOgUaRy35cGxFY6q4nZYt5Cag9h1t7mfGHCUAFbVw4ksUAWmLcz7fx0VKpOPUxv/FhkWP7E= X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On Mon, 9 Jun 2025, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote: > Informally, as discussed at LSF/MM, the broad perception is that a > maintainer MUST be actively involved, whereas a reviewer has expertise and > MAY optionally get involved in the process. Both Andrew and I are actively involved in various ways but we have other priorities as well. If there would be an issue with maintainership then we would address the issue. > I base this on the fact that Christoph has made 2 patches (other than > updating email) since 2020 and David hasn't contributed patches since 2016 > (please forgive me if I missed anything, this was a _rough_ git log check). The two patches were in 2024 and there was one in 2020.... The last large scale change I did to slab was in 2015. If you look at Andrew's changes its a similar thing. > Whereas Vlastimil has essentially handled _all_ slab maintainership duties > for a very long time. Yes he is doing a great job and has done so for a long time. That is one reason why we can spend more time with other things and limit ourselves to mostly commenting here and there. > According to the maintainer handbook [0]: > > "That said, being a maintainer is an active role. The MAINTAINERS > file is not a list of credits (in fact a separate CREDITS file > exists), it is a list of those who will actively help with the > code. If the author does not have the time, interest or ability to > maintain the code, a different maintainer must be selected." Well both Andrew and I fit that role as maintainers.