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SubjectRe: [PATCH RFC 1/2] MAINTAINERS: Add "R:" designated-reviewers tag
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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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