[PATCH v5 5/5] docs: media: profile: make it clearer about maintainership duties

Mauro Carvalho Chehab posted 5 patches 1 month ago
[PATCH v5 5/5] docs: media: profile: make it clearer about maintainership duties
Posted by Mauro Carvalho Chehab 1 month ago
During the review of the media committer's profile, it was noticed
that the responsibility for timely review patches was not clear:
such review is expected that all developers listed at MAINTAINERS
with the "M:" tag (e.g. "maintainers" on its broad sense).

This is orthogonal of being a media committer or not. Such duty
is implied at:

	Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-issues.rst

and at the MAINTAINERS header, when it says that even when the
status is "odd fixes", the patches will flow in.

So, let make it explicit at the maintainer-entry-profile that
maintainers need to do timely reviews.

Also, while right now our focus is on granting committer rights to
maintainers, the media-committer model may evolve in the future to
accept other committers that don't have such duties.

So, make it clear at the media-committer.rst that the duties
related to reviewing patches from others are for the drivers
they are maintainers as well.

Reviewed-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
---
 Documentation/driver-api/media/maintainer-entry-profile.rst | 5 +++++
 Documentation/driver-api/media/media-committer.rst          | 6 +++---
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/media/maintainer-entry-profile.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/media/maintainer-entry-profile.rst
index 4e6eb1225ade..d6d8ca5eed09 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/media/maintainer-entry-profile.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/media/maintainer-entry-profile.rst
@@ -184,6 +184,11 @@ b. Committers' workflow: patches are handled by media committers::
 On both workflows, all patches shall be properly reviewed at
 linux-media@vger.kernel.org (LMML) before being merged at media-committers.git.
 
+Such patches will be reviewed timely by the maintainers and reviewers as
+listed in the MAINTAINERS file. The subsystem maintainers will follow one of
+the above workflows, e. g. they will either send a pull request or merge
+patches directly at the media-committers tree.
+
 When patches are picked by patchwork and when merged at media-committers,
 CI bots will check for errors and may provide e-mail feedback about
 patch problems. When this happens, the patch submitter must fix them or
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/media/media-committer.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/media/media-committer.rst
index 3d0987a8a93b..0bc038a0fdcc 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/media/media-committer.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/media/media-committer.rst
@@ -90,9 +90,9 @@ be a part of their maintenance tasks.
 Due to that, to become a committer or a core committer, a consensus between
 all subsystem maintainers is required, as they all need to trust a developer
 well enough to be delegated the responsibility to maintain part of the code
-and to properly review patches from third parties, in a timely manner and
-keeping the status of the reviewed code at https://patchwork.linuxtv.org
-updated.
+and to properly review patches from third parties for the drivers that they
+maintain in a timely manner and keeping the status of the patches at
+https://patchwork.linuxtv.org updated.
 
 .. Note::
 
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