Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Remove Shawn Anastasio as PPC64 reviewer

[Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 28/10/2025 11:28 pm, Timothy Pearson wrote:
> Shawn is no longer with Raptor Engineering.  For now, add myself as PPC64
> maintainer.
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index ecd3f40df8..c8764a8c5f 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -472,7 +472,7 @@ F:        xen/drivers/cpufreq/
>  F:   xen/include/acpi/cpufreq/
>  
>  PPC64
> -M:   Shawn Anastasio <sanastasio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> +M:   Timothy Pearson <tpearson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>  F:   xen/arch/ppc/

Sorry to hear, and thanks for letting us know.

For a long while now, the committers (the group called The Rest in
maintainer) have been operating as if this was an R rather than an M.

It turns out that most changes technically touching PPC are common/arch
rearrangements, or common things that need a copy in all arches, or
comments fixes/etc.  We've been putting these in without a PPC ack, so
as not to block work in other area.  Obviously, anything that is PPC
specific waits for input.

If you're not aware, we do have some PPC64 build jobs and one QEMU boot
test in CI running on every commit.  e.g.
https://gitlab.com/xen-project/hardware/xen/-/pipelines/2127184050

Would you mind changing to R to reflect how things are working in practice?

Also, we're in code freeze for the Xen 4.21 release right now.  This
patch will be fine, with a SoB, but the others will have to wait until
4.22 opens.

Thanks,

~Andrew