From: Thomas Monjalon Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 10:00:16 +0000 (+0100) Subject: doc: add maintainer role about replying questions X-Git-Tag: spdx-start~3691 X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=acd6dc98a94b2745137d3b72e599781e7afab94e;p=dpdk.git doc: add maintainer role about replying questions The first line of the MAINTAINERS file are: " The intention of this file is to provide a set of names that we can rely on for helping in patch reviews and questions. " Unfortunately, some maintainers do not endorse their role for questions asked on the mailing list. Hope making it clear in the contribution guide will enforce more responsive maintainer participation. Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon Acked-by: John McNamara --- diff --git a/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst b/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst index fe7138178b..84a5dab82f 100644 --- a/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst +++ b/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst @@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ The role of the component maintainers is to: * Review patches for the component or delegate the review. The review should be done, ideally, within 1 week of submission to the mailing list. * Add an ``acked-by`` to patches, or patchsets, that are ready for committing to a tree. +* Reply to questions asked about the component. Component maintainers can be added or removed by submitting a patch to the ``MAINTAINERS`` file. Maintainers should have demonstrated a reasonable level of contributions or reviews to the component area.