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

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Message-ID: <20140602185635.GB13569@cloud>
Date:	Mon, 2 Jun 2014 11:56:35 -0700
From:	josh@...htriplett.org
To:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	mingo@...nel.org, laijs@...fujitsu.com, dipankar@...ibm.com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 1/2] MAINTAINERS: Add "R:" designated-reviewers tag

On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 11:16:58AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 10:59:28AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Mon, 2014-06-02 at 10:48 -0700, josh@...htriplett.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?
> 
> In the particular case of Josh, none, at least from my viewpoint.  He of
> course might or might not want to take on additional maintainership
> responsibility at this particular point in time, in which case, I would
> be more than happy to have him as a designated maintainer.

For the record, I'd be happy to be listed as a co-maintainer for RCU. :)

- Josh Triplett
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