Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Start using the 'reviewer' (R) tag | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Wed, 28 Oct 2015 04:06:39 -0700 |
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On Wed, 2015-10-28 at 11:53 +0100, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote: > (Lee) think(s) that the difference between a maintainer and > a reviewer is if a branch with fixes / new features are kept and pull > requests sent while I think that the difference is the level of > involvement someone has with a driver regardless of how patches ends > in the subsystem tree (picked directly by subsystem maintainers or > sent through pull requests). > > Is the first time I heard your definition but maybe I'm the one that > is wrong so it would be great to get a consensus on that and get it > documented somewhere.
I think Lee is over-analyzing.
From MAINTAINERS: M: Mail patches to: FullName <address@domain> R: Designated reviewer: FullName <address@domain> These reviewers should be CCed on patches. S: Status, one of the following: Supported: Someone is actually paid to look after this. Maintained: Someone actually looks after it.
"looking after" doesn't mean upstreaming.
The original threads for this were:
http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/ksummit-discuss/2014-May/000830.html https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/2/446
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