Re: [PATCH RFC 1/2] MAINTAINERS: Add "R:" designated-reviewers tag

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

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.

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> 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?

The lack of reviewers problem is entirely distinct from
the proposed solution.

I believe active reviewers will generally subscribe to a
subsystem specific mailing list.

Perhaps it'd be better to get a "linux-rcu@vger.kernel.org"
mailing list going.

> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
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> @@ -73,6 +73,8 @@ Descriptions of section entries:
>  	L: Mailing list that is relevant to this area
>  	W: Web-page with status/info
>  	Q: Patchwork web based patch tracking system site
> +	R: Designated reviewer, who should be CCed on patches,
> +	   format: FullName <address@domain>
>  	T: SCM tree type and location.
>  	   Type is one of: git, hg, quilt, stgit, topgit
>  	S: Status, one of the following:

If this is actually done, I suggest putting this
"R" entry description immediately after the "M" entry.