linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Start using the 'reviewer' (R) tag

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Date:	Wed, 28 Oct 2015 04:06:39 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@...hile0.org>
Cc:	Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@...sung.com>,
	Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
	Sebastian Reichel <sre@...nel.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@...sung.com>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
	Ben Dooks <ben-linux@...ff.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Start using the 'reviewer' (R) tag

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@...ain>
	R: Designated reviewer: FullName <address@...ain>
	   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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