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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@dowhile0.org>
Cc: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@samsung.com>,
	Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@samsung.com>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>, Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Start using the 'reviewer' (R) tag
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 04:06:39 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1446030399.2757.83.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABxcv=mzzcx3o0m3hYzcn0DyM2pEFDZ-ZgVCjChWGf+y4Xy78A@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 2015-10-28 at 11:53 +0100, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> (Lee) think(s) that the difference between a maintainer and
> a reviewer is if a branch with fixes / new features are kept and pull
> requests sent while I think that the difference is the level of
> involvement someone has with a driver regardless of how patches ends
> in the subsystem tree (picked directly by subsystem maintainers or
> sent through pull requests).
> 
> Is the first time I heard your definition but maybe I'm the one that
> is wrong so it would be great to get a consensus on that and get it
> documented somewhere.

I think Lee is over-analyzing.

>From MAINTAINERS:
	M: Mail patches to: FullName <address@domain>
	R: Designated reviewer: FullName <address@domain>
	   These reviewers should be CCed on patches.
	S: Status, one of the following:
	   Supported:	Someone is actually paid to look after this.
	   Maintained:	Someone actually looks after it.

"looking after" doesn't mean upstreaming.

The original threads for this were:

http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/ksummit-discuss/2014-May/000830.html
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/2/446



  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-28 11:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-27 15:42 [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Start using the 'reviewer' (R) tag Lee Jones
2015-10-27 17:24 ` Sebastian Reichel
2015-10-27 18:15   ` Lee Jones
2015-10-27 18:44     ` Joe Perches
2015-10-28  1:46       ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2015-10-28  8:24         ` Lee Jones
2015-10-28  9:21           ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2015-10-28  9:25             ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2015-10-28  9:31             ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2015-10-28 10:28             ` Lee Jones
2015-10-28 10:53               ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2015-10-28 11:06                 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2015-10-28 11:25                   ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2015-10-28 11:39                     ` Lee Jones
2015-10-28 12:14                       ` Lee Jones
2015-10-28 12:20                         ` Joe Perches
2015-10-28 12:24                           ` Lee Jones
2015-10-28 12:46                             ` Joe Perches
2015-10-28 13:06                         ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2015-10-28 13:34                           ` Lee Jones
2015-10-28 14:09                             ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2015-10-28 14:38                               ` Lee Jones
2015-10-28 14:54                                 ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2015-10-28 23:56                                 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2015-10-29  0:12                                   ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2015-10-30 16:51                                     ` Lee Jones
2015-10-30 16:51                                   ` Lee Jones
2015-10-28  9:23           ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2015-10-28  9:39             ` Uwe Kleine-König
2015-10-28  9:55               ` Lee Jones
2015-10-28 13:13                 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2015-10-28 16:41                   ` [PATCH] get_maintainer: Add subsystem to reviewer output Joe Perches
2015-10-28 17:01                     ` Lee Jones
2015-10-28 17:08                       ` Joe Perches
2015-10-28 17:22                         ` Lee Jones
2015-10-28 17:30                           ` Joe Perches
2015-10-28 17:49                             ` Lee Jones
2015-10-28 17:56                               ` Joe Perches
2015-10-29  9:20                                 ` Lee Jones
2015-10-29 14:14                                   ` Joe Perches
2015-10-29 16:17                                     ` Lee Jones
2015-10-28 17:18                       ` Joe Perches
2015-10-28 23:49                     ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2015-10-28 10:14             ` [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Start using the 'reviewer' (R) tag Lee Jones
2015-10-28 13:27               ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2015-10-28 13:49                 ` Lee Jones
2015-10-28 16:26           ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2015-10-28 16:33             ` Lee Jones
2015-10-28  8:57 ` Chanwoo Choi

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