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Re: Subsystem maintainers
- From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>
- To: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Thomas Schwinge <thomas at codesourcery dot com>, Torvald Riegel <triegel at redhat dot com>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 21:30:32 -0400
- Subject: Re: Subsystem maintainers
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On 10/08/2014 11:31 AM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Oct 2014, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
>
>> At the expense of overestimating my expertise in various components
>> (and my understanding of the way our development model works), I
>> volunteer to be subsystem maintainer for benchtests (since I wrote it)
>> and nscd (since I spent a fair bit of time fixing netgroups bugs and
>> miscellaneous things). I can also be fallback for malloc since I
>> spent a fair bit of time in that code for work reasons in the past
>> (tech support debugging other people's memory corruption is fun, for
>> some liberal definitions of fun).
>
> I support having you as maintainer for benchtests and nscd. malloc is
> sufficiently central I think we may be better off having reviewers for it.
>
I agree. In general for core pieces of glibc we want multiple reviewers.
Cheers,
Carlos.