[Development] Platform maintainers

[Gunnar Sletta]

On 26 Sep 2014, at 12:33, Giulio Camuffo <giuliocamuffo at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2014-09-25 19:26 GMT+03:00 Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com>:
>> On Thursday 25 September 2014 10:17:25 Knoll Lars wrote:
>>> Windows: Friedemann
>>> WinRT: Andrew Knight
>>> OS X: Morten
>>> Linux (X11): Jørgen Lind
>>> Linux (Wayland): Already covered by Andy Nichols
>>> iOS: Tor Arne
>>> Android: Bogdan
>>> Windows CE: Björn Breitmeyer
>>> 
>>> QNX is open for the moment, I’d love to hear proposals.
>>> 
>>> Most of the people above have been acting as a platform maintainer in
>>> practice, so this is mostly about formalising the responsibility and
>>> giving them proper recognition.
>> 
>> Agreed, most of them are already acting as Maintainers anyway, which is the
>> usual requirement for them to become Maintainers anyway. At the very least, I
>> can directly confirm Friedemann, Andrew, Tor Arne, Bogdan and Björn have done
>> that work, as I've sent a few patches their way for those platforms and they
>> were readily acted on. Moreover, I know Morten, Jørgen and Andy personally,
>> and a quick git log shows they've been active. (Wayland being the easiest,
>> since it's a separate repo: of the last 200 commits, 140 were reviewed by
>> Andy)
> 
> Uhm, how did you get that number? A "git log -n 200 |grep Andy|wc -l"
> says 5 to me, four Reviewed-by and one Author, the last one being on
> February 11.
> I don't want to be dismissive of the work he has done on qtwayland,
> but he hasn't been working on it for many months, and on and off for
> even more. Jørgen or Laszlo would be a better fit, imho.
> 

Another candidate would be yourself, Giulio :)

Giulio has been doing a lot of the heavy work there in the last few months and he is also quite active in both the wayland community as well as the qtwayland community. He has my vote.


> 
> --
> Giulio
> 
>> 
>> Therefore, I give my Maintainer +1 on all nominations.
>> 
>> --
>> Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
>>  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
>> 
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