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

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Message-ID: <538E77E4.8010406@cn.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Wed, 4 Jun 2014 09:35:32 +0800
From:	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>
To:	<paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC:	<josh@...htriplett.org>, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 1/2] MAINTAINERS: Add "R:" designated-reviewers tag

On 06/03/2014 03:27 AM, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 12:11:55PM -0700, josh@...htriplett.org wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 12:08:21PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 11:56:35AM -0700, josh@...htriplett.org wrote:
>>>> 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. :)
>>>
>>> I would be happy to put you down as maintainer and Steven down as
>>> official reviewer.  ;-)
>>
>> I'd suggest adding Mathieu Desnoyers, Oleg Nesterov, and Lai Jiangshan
>> as reviewers as well, with their consent.
> 
> Mathieu, Oleg, Lai, any objections?
> 
> 							

I agree to add me.

Thanks,
Lai
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