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

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Message-ID: <20140602195017.GC22231@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Mon, 2 Jun 2014 12:50:17 -0700
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	josh@...htriplett.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	mingo@...nel.org, laijs@...fujitsu.com, dipankar@...ibm.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com,
	niv@...ibm.com, tglx@...utronix.de, peterz@...radead.org,
	rostedt@...dmis.org, dhowells@...hat.com, edumazet@...gle.com,
	dvhart@...ux.intel.com, fweisbec@...il.com, oleg@...hat.com,
	sbw@....edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 1/2] MAINTAINERS: Add "R:" designated-reviewers tag

On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 12:36:22PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-06-02 at 12:27 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 12:11:55PM -0700, josh@...htriplett.org wrote:
> > > 
> > > I'd suggest adding Mathieu Desnoyers, Oleg Nesterov, and Lai Jiangshan
> > > as reviewers as well, with their consent.
> > 
> > Mathieu, Oleg, Lai, any objections?
> 
> I suggest not going overboard with R entries.
> If there are more than 1 or 2, create a mailing list.

Having a limit of two seems reasonable.  First to the post, then.
Or maybe last to object?  ;-)

> And more entries will just make the churn and name-decay
> in MAINTAINERS that much more prevalent.
> 
> None of those people have any significant
> quantities of commit entries for rcu
> 
> (with the get_maintainer patch posted)
> 
> $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f kernel/rcu/ --git --git-min-percent=3
> Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@...ibm.com> (supporter:READ-COPY UPDATE...)
> "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> (supporter:READ-COPY UPDATE...,commit_signer:82/85=96%,authored:58/85=68%)
> Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org> (reviewer,commit_signer:56/85=66%)
> Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org> (commit_signer:5/85=6%)
> Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> (commit_signer:5/85=6%)
> Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> (commit_signer:3/85=4%)
> Andreea-Cristina Bernat <bernat.ada@...il.com> (authored:3/85=4%)
> linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org (open list:READ-COPY UPDATE...)

Good to know, but then again, I sometimes review patches in areas where
I have no commits.

							Thanx, Paul

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