From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755781AbbJ1LGo (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Oct 2015 07:06:44 -0400 Received: from smtprelay0098.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.98]:56439 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755239AbbJ1LGn (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Oct 2015 07:06:43 -0400 X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-Spam-Summary: 30,2,0,,d41d8cd98f00b204,joe@perches.com,:::::::::::::::::::::,RULES_HIT:41:355:379:541:599:967:973:988:989:1260:1263:1277:1311:1313:1314:1345:1359:1373:1431:1437:1515:1516:1518:1534:1541:1593:1594:1711:1730:1747:1777:1792:2198:2199:2393:2525:2553:2561:2564:2682:2685:2828:2859:2933:2937:2939:2942:2945:2947:2951:2954:3022:3138:3139:3140:3141:3142:3352:3622:3865:3866:3867:3868:3870:3871:3872:3874:3934:3936:3938:3941:3944:3947:3950:3953:3956:3959:4321:5007:6117:6261:7903:7974:8957:8985:9025:9388:10010:10049:10400:10848:11232:11658:11914:12043:12292:12517:12519:12555:12663:12679:12682:12740:12776:13069:13161:13229:13311:13357:13845:14096:14097:14106:14107:21080,0,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:0:1:0 X-HE-Tag: shake32_3a3d4d5999646 X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 2757 Message-ID: <1446030399.2757.83.camel@perches.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Start using the 'reviewer' (R) tag From: Joe Perches To: Javier Martinez Canillas Cc: Lee Jones , Krzysztof Kozlowski , Wolfram Sang , Linus Walleij , Sebastian Reichel , Linux Kernel , Chanwoo Choi , Mark Brown , Ben Dooks , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 04:06:39 -0700 In-Reply-To: References: <1445960557-24328-1-git-send-email-lee.jones@linaro.org> <20151027172428.GB21070@earth> <20151027181555.GE5828@x1> <1445971482.2757.27.camel@perches.com> <20151028082446.GF5828@x1> <20151028102832.GR5828@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 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 R: Designated reviewer: FullName 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