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From: joe@perches•com (Joe Perches)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Start using the 'reviewer' (R) tag
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 11:44:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1445971482.2757.27.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151027181555.GE5828@x1>

On Tue, 2015-10-27 at 18:15 +0000, Lee Jones wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Oct 2015, Sebastian Reichel wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 03:42:37PM +0000, Lee Jones wrote:
> > > Since eafbaac ("MAINTAINERS: Add "R:" designated-reviewers tag") we
> > > have been able to tag specific people as Reviewers.  These are key
> > > individuals who are tasked with or volunteer to review code submitted
> > > to a subsystem or specific file.  However, according to MAINTAINERS
> > > we have 1046 Maintainers and only a mere 22 Reviewers.  I believe
> > > these numbers to be incorrect, as many of these Maintainers are in
> > > fact Reviewers.

Most entries in MAINTAINERS seem to be vanity entries than actual
active participants.  A person typically writes a driver, adds a
MAINTAINER entry, then forgets about it and/or the hardware becomes
outdated.

> > > I have taken the time to identify some of the Reviewers who pertain
> > > to subsystems which I look after, and have changed their status from
> > > Maintainer (collector of patches) to Reviewer (reviewer of code).
> > 
> > [for drivers/power/*]
> > Acked-By: Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel•org>
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> > I think you should CC the people, which are changed from "M:" to
> > "R:", though.
> 
> Yes, makes sense.
> 
> I'd like to collect some Maintainer Acks first though.

I think people from organizations like Samsung are actual
maintainers not reviewers.

Their drivers are not thrown over a wall and forgotten.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-27 18:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-27 15:42 [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Start using the 'reviewer' (R) tag Lee Jones
2015-10-27 17:24 ` Sebastian Reichel
2015-10-27 18:15   ` Lee Jones
2015-10-27 18:44     ` Joe Perches [this message]
2015-10-28  1:46       ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2015-10-28  8:24         ` Lee Jones
2015-10-28  9:21           ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2015-10-28  9:25             ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2015-10-28  9:31             ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2015-10-28 10:28             ` Lee Jones
2015-10-28 10:53               ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2015-10-28 11:06                 ` Joe Perches
2015-10-28 11:25                   ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2015-10-28 11:39                     ` Lee Jones
2015-10-28 12:14                       ` Lee Jones
2015-10-28 12:20                         ` Joe Perches
2015-10-28 12:24                           ` Lee Jones
2015-10-28 12:46                             ` Joe Perches
2015-10-28 13:06                         ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2015-10-28 13:34                           ` Lee Jones
2015-10-28 14:09                             ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2015-10-28 14:38                               ` Lee Jones
2015-10-28 14:54                                 ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2015-10-28 23:56                                 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2015-10-29  0:12                                   ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2015-10-30 16:51                                     ` Lee Jones
2015-10-30 16:51                                   ` Lee Jones
2015-10-28  9:23           ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2015-10-28  9:39             ` Uwe Kleine-König
2015-10-28  9:55               ` Lee Jones
2015-10-28 13:13                 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2015-10-28 16:41                   ` [PATCH] get_maintainer: Add subsystem to reviewer output Joe Perches
2015-10-28 17:01                     ` Lee Jones
2015-10-28 17:08                       ` Joe Perches
2015-10-28 17:22                         ` Lee Jones
2015-10-28 17:30                           ` Joe Perches
2015-10-28 17:49                             ` Lee Jones
2015-10-28 17:56                               ` Joe Perches
2015-10-29  9:20                                 ` Lee Jones
2015-10-29 14:14                                   ` Joe Perches
2015-10-29 16:17                                     ` Lee Jones
2015-10-28 17:18                       ` Joe Perches
2015-10-28 23:49                     ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2015-10-28 10:14             ` [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Start using the 'reviewer' (R) tag Lee Jones
2015-10-28 13:27               ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2015-10-28 13:49                 ` Lee Jones
2015-10-28 16:26           ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2015-10-28 16:33             ` Lee Jones
2015-10-28  8:57 ` Chanwoo Choi

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