MAINTAINERS: Clarify the meaning of nested maintainership
Clarify the meaning of nested maintainership.
Signed-off-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>
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We had a discussion about the meaning of nested maintainership at the
recent Xen Hackathon. The notes of that meeting can be found on this
list [1]. No decision is official until discussed on this list, so
consider this patch the official proposal for this change, and object
or ask for clarification accordingly.
Compared to v1, there is one change that is worth pointing out: The
claim that THE REST consists of all committers. This is the case at
the moment, but this change would codify that this is an invariant we
intend to keep going forward.
The advantage of this is that the dispute resolution mentioned in this
patch for maintainers who can't agree lines up directly with the
fall-back for broader community issues upon which we can't reach
consensus.
[1] marc.info/?i=<
EDB48431-C3EF-4461-B2D2-
3AB95EA6C392@gmail.com>
Changes in v2:
- fixed spelling of "maintainer"
- fixed path of multi.c
- clarified that the resolution by REST would be by *majority* vote
- Asserted that The REST consists of all committers
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