On Mon, 2014-06-02 at 10:48 -0700, j...@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? -- 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/
