Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751988AbaFBSu0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jun 2014 14:50:26 -0400 Received: from cdptpa-outbound-snat.email.rr.com ([107.14.166.229]:31356 "EHLO cdptpa-oedge-vip.email.rr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751286AbaFBSuY (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jun 2014 14:50:24 -0400 Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2014 14:50:20 -0400 From: Steven Rostedt To: Joe Perches Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, josh@joshtriplett.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@kernel.org, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com, niv@us.ibm.com, tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org, dhowells@redhat.com, edumazet@google.com, dvhart@linux.intel.com, fweisbec@gmail.com, oleg@redhat.com, sbw@mit.edu Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 1/2] MAINTAINERS: Add "R:" designated-reviewers tag Message-ID: <20140602145020.400d4e0c@gandalf.local.home> In-Reply-To: <1401734669.7323.20.camel@joe-AO725> References: <1401728420-3572-1-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1401729778.5770.20.camel@joe-AO725> <20140602174837.GA13257@cloud> <1401731968.7323.4.camel@joe-AO725> <20140602181658.GX22231@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1401734669.7323.20.camel@joe-AO725> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.3 (GTK+ 2.24.23; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-RR-Connecting-IP: 107.14.168.142:25 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 02 Jun 2014 11:44:29 -0700 Joe Perches wrote: > On Mon, 2014-06-02 at 11:16 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > But there have been people who have found serious issues in RCU patches > > who I would not trust as full maintainers. The ability to find defects > > is valuable in and of itself, and should be recognized as such, even > > when not accompanied by the rest of the maintainership package. > > Maybe, but odd-lot reviewers are most likely going to find > these same defects regardless of any "R" designation in > MAINTAINERS. > Actually, I'm thinking the R: tag is a good idea and we should have people ask to be added to MAINTAINERS if they want to review certain subsystems. Grant you, it should be people that the maintainers trust. I can think of several people I would like to be added as R: in tracing. The point is, when patches go out, it is easy to see who the Cc list should be. And perhaps this will get patches reviewed more. Maybe maintainers of other subsystems should ask to have the R: tag added for something they don't maintain but want to help out in. I may add myself to the x86, scheduler, time keeping and perhaps even RCU, as I like to read those patches. I'm not at the level of maintaining those subsystems, but I feel comfortable enough to review any changes there. -- Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/