docs/devel/maintainers.rst

6 Maintainers are a critical part of the project's contributor ecosystem.
8 working in their spare time to employees who work on the project as
11   - reviewing patches and suggesting changes
12   - collecting patches and preparing pull requests
13   - tending to the long term health of their area
14   - participating in other project activities
18 to project's :ref:`code_of_conduct` and should also be exemplars of
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25 <https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/blob/master/MAINTAINERS>`__
34 .. list-table:: Meaning of support status in MAINTAINERS
36    :header-rows: 1
38    * - Status
39      - Meaning
40    * - Supported
41      - Someone is actually paid to look after this.
42    * - Maintained
43      - Someone actually looks after it.
44    * - Odd Fixes
45      - It has a maintainer but they don't have time to do
47    * - Orphan
48      - No current maintainer.
49    * - Obsolete
50      - Old obsolete code, should use something else.
54 the code comes with no warranty and the project makes no guarantees
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68 marks you as a 'designated reviewer' - expected to provide regular
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79 are also trusted to make a positive contribution to the project and
82 The process is simple - simply send a patch to the list that updates
84 series when a new sub-system is being added to the code base. This can
98 members of the QEMU community, you should make arrangements to attend
99 a `KeySigningParty <https://wiki.qemu.org/KeySigningParty>`__ (for