MAINTAINERS!

Alex Deucher alexdeucher at gmail.com
Sat Feb 11 12:00:29 PST 2006


On 2/11/06, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

Nevermind, I see you mentioned the file at the top.

Alex

> Alex
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jesse
> >
>



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