From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: joe@perches.com (Joe Perches) Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 11:44:42 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Start using the 'reviewer' (R) tag In-Reply-To: <20151027181555.GE5828@x1> References: <1445960557-24328-1-git-send-email-lee.jones@linaro.org> <20151027172428.GB21070@earth> <20151027181555.GE5828@x1> Message-ID: <1445971482.2757.27.camel@perches.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org 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 A person typically writes a driver, adds a MAINTAINER entry, then forgets about it and/or the hardware becomes outdated.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 > > 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.