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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Start using the 'reviewer' (R) tag
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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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