From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932602AbbJ0Sor (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Oct 2015 14:44:47 -0400 Received: from smtprelay0037.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.37]:35553 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753202AbbJ0Soq (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Oct 2015 14:44:46 -0400 X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-Spam-Summary: 2,0,0,,d41d8cd98f00b204,joe@perches.com,:::::::::::::::::,RULES_HIT:41:355:379:541:599:800:960:973:988:989:1260:1277:1311:1313:1314:1345:1359:1373:1437:1515:1516:1518:1534:1541:1593:1594:1711:1730:1747:1777:1792:2393:2553:2559:2562:2691:2828:2911:3138:3139:3140:3141:3142:3353:3622:3865:3866:3867:3868:3870:3872:3873:4250:4321:4425:5007:6261:7974:10004:10400:10848:11232:11658:11914:12517:12519:12740:13069:13161:13229:13311:13357:13618:14093:14097:21080:30012:30034:30046:30054:30090:30091,0,RBL:none,CacheIP:none,Bayesian:0.5,0.5,0.5,Netcheck:none,DomainCache:0,MSF:not bulk,SPF:fn,MSBL:0,DNSBL:none,Custom_rules:0:0:0,LFtime:3,LUA_SUMMARY:none X-HE-Tag: bun61_4648b062f2839 X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 2503 Message-ID: <1445971482.2757.27.camel@perches.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Start using the 'reviewer' (R) tag From: Joe Perches To: Lee Jones Cc: Sebastian Reichel , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, broonie@kernel.org, linus.walleij@linaro.org, wsa@the-dreams.de, ben-linux@fluff.org, cw00.choi@samsung.com Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 11:44:42 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20151027181555.GE5828@x1> References: <1445960557-24328-1-git-send-email-lee.jones@linaro.org> <20151027172428.GB21070@earth> <20151027181555.GE5828@x1> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.12.11-0ubuntu3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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.