MAINTAINERS!

[Alex Deucher]

On 2/11/06, Jesse Barnes <jbarnes at virtuousgeek.org> wrote:
> On Saturday, February 11, 2006 11:28 am, Alex Deucher wrote:
> > > xf86-video-ati
> > > P:      Alex Deucher
> > > M:      ?
> > > L:      xorg at freedesktop.org
> > > W:      http://www.freedesktop.org
> > > S:      Maintained
> >
> > Ummm... I'm not sure I want to take on the mess that is radeon.  I'd
> > say there are several maintainers at least.  I'll take r128, and
> > partial responsibility for radeon unless someone else wants to step
> > up.
>
> Ok, that's fine, we can split it out like that if you want.  When I put
> the list together, ajax suggested that you might be the most
> appropriate person to list as ATI maintainer, but it sounds like no one
> really wants take full responsibility for radeon given how much trouble
> it is...
>

you can feel free to put me there, I don't mind triaging and
coordinating; It's just that the radeon driver involves so much I
couldn't possibly maintain it solo :)

> > > xf86-video-savage
> > > P:      ?
> > > M:      ?
> > > L:      xorg at freedesktop.org
> > > W:      http://www.freedesktop.org
> > > S:      Unmaintained
> >
> > I'll take savage.
> >
> > xf86-video-savage
> > P:      Alex Deucher
> > M:     agd5f at yahoo.com
> > L:      xorg at freedesktop.org
> > W:      http://www.freedesktop.org
> > S:      Maintained
>
> Great!
>
> > > xf86-video-siliconmotion
> > > P:      ?
> > > M:      ?
> > > L:      xorg at freedesktop.org
> > > W:      http://www.freedesktop.org
> > > S:      Unmaintained
> >
> > I may take on smi eventually.  I'm planning on picking up an smi
> > based system soon to play with.
>
> Cool, sounds good.  You may as well put your name there then; you can
> always pass it off if someone else decides they'd like to own it
> instead.

Sounds good.

>
> > > xf86-video-sis
> > > P:      ?
> > > M:      ?
> > > L:      xorg at freedesktop.org
> > > W:      http://www.freedesktop.org
> > > S:      Unmaintained
> > >
> > > xf86-video-sisusb
> > > P:      ?
> > > M:      ?
> > > L:      xorg at freedesktop.org
> > > W:      http://www.freedesktop.org
> > > S:      Unmaintained
> >
> > Thomas Winischhofer still maintains sis and sisusb AFAIK.
>
> Ok, I can dig up that info and fixup the list.
>
> > > xf86-video-sunffb
> > > P:      ?
> > > M:      ?
> > > L:      xorg at freedesktop.org
> > > W:      http://www.freedesktop.org
> > > S:      Unmaintained
> >
> > I think David Miller maybe...
>
> Wasn't sure--I know David is pretty busy and I didn't want to volunteer
> him without talking to him first.  He'd probably also be the best
> choice for Linux/sparc maintainer.
>
> Can you go ahead and update the file in CVS to reflect the stuff you
> wanted to own (and maybe add Thomas for sis and sisusb)?  If not, I can
> do it, but I probably won't get to it until tomorrow night...

I'll  see what I can do.  Where is the file?  I admit I'm still
getting used to the modular tree.

Alex

>
> Thanks,
> Jesse
>