Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2014 11:55:04 -0700
From: josh@joshtriplett.org
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 1/2] MAINTAINERS: Add "R:" designated-reviewers tag
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On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 02:50:20PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Jun 2014 11:44:29 -0700
> Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> 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.

That's exactly the idea: this should go along with a change to
get_maintainer.pl to add those folks to the CC list.

- Josh Triplett
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