Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH RFC 1/2] MAINTAINERS: Add "R:" designated-reviewers tag | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Mon, 02 Jun 2014 10:59:28 -0700 |
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On Mon, 2014-06-02 at 10:48 -0700, josh@joshtriplett.org wrote: > On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 10:22:58AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > > On Mon, 2014-06-02 at 10:00 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > A ksummit-discuss email thread looked at the difficulty recruiting > > > and retaining reviewers. > > > > [] > > > > > Paul Walmsley also noted the need for patch > > > submitters to know who the key reviewers are and suggested adding an > > > "R:" tag to the MAINTAINERS file to record this information on a > > > per-subsystem basis. > > > > I'm not sure of the value of this. > > > > Why not just mark the actual reviewers as maintainers? > > As discussed in the kernel summit discussion, being a regular patch > reviewer isn't the same thing as being *the* maintainer.
I think it's not particularly important or valuable here to make that distinction.
What real difference does it make?
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