On Tue, 2015-10-27 at 11:29 +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote: > > act as reviewers, they should have a mention in MAINTAINERS for > > get_maintiner.pl to pull information from: > > > > R: Designated reviewer: FullName <address@domain> > > These reviewers should be CCed on patches. > > I think this should do. > > Interested parties should start by scanning the mailing list :)
I think the concept of reviewers is fine. A couple weeks ago, I suggested a mechanism to have reviewers concentrate their entries into separate REVIEWERS file(s) https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/10/16/649 These REVIEWERS* files would also work for companies that have people with specific areas of expertise that want internal review before public exposure. Kconfig and Makefile files in directories like drivers/i2c/busses are outliers because all new individual drivers are added to both files. The mechanism to limit git-fallback use is a directory depth match. Wolfram has a MAINTAINERS entry of: F: drivers/i2c/ but that doesn't pattern doesn't match the directory depth of file drivers/i2c/busses/Kconfig so git-fallback is used for files that don't have specific MAINTAINERS. It _might_ make some sense to limit activation of git history in that specific case, but for some path like arch/, that limitation might _not_ make sense. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/