Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752674AbaFBS4o (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jun 2014 14:56:44 -0400 Received: from relay3-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.195]:42308 "EHLO relay3-d.mail.gandi.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751235AbaFBS4m (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jun 2014 14:56:42 -0400 Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2014 11:56:35 -0700 From: josh@joshtriplett.org To: "Paul E. McKenney" Cc: Joe Perches , 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, rostedt@goodmis.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: <20140602185635.GB13569@cloud> 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> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140602181658.GX22231@linux.vnet.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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@joshtriplett.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 -- 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/