On 10/1/20 2:54 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > 01/10/2020 23:22, Chautru, Nicolas: >> From: [email protected] <[email protected]> >>> From: Tom Rix <[email protected]> >>> >>> Copied from the Linux kernel MAINTAINERS file. >>> A Reviewer is designated person who wishes to review changes in areas of >>> interest. >>> >>> Added self as Reviewer for baseband. >>> >>> I am a Linux kernel Reviewer for the fpga n3000/vista creek which has >>> several bitstream based baseband devices. So I want to help out here as >>> well. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Tom Rix <[email protected]> >> Thanks for the help. >> Note that they are a few other BBDEV patches in flight for 20.11 on top of >> the acc100 PMD that you may want to be aware of. >> https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=&submitter=chautru&state=&q=&archive=&delegate= >> >> Acked-by: Nicolas Chautru <[email protected]> > [...] >>> Baseband API - EXPERIMENTAL >>> M: Nicolas Chautru <[email protected]> >>> +R: Tom Rix <[email protected]> > I don't understand the need of differenciating maintainer and reviewer. > If you are trusted enough, why not just being co-maintainer? > I want to help out with the reviews, the reviewer type makes clear this level of commitment.
Maintainer is the next, higher level of commitment. Trust wise, this would allow the maintainer verify the reviewer does have the bandwidth to be responsive and effective before committing to sharing responsibility. Tom >
