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

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Mon Jun 02 2014 - 15:40:59 EST


On 06/02/2014 12:36 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-06-02 at 12:27 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 12:11:55PM -0700, josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>>
>>> I'd suggest adding Mathieu Desnoyers, Oleg Nesterov, and Lai Jiangshan
>>> as reviewers as well, with their consent.
>>
>> Mathieu, Oleg, Lai, any objections?
>
> I suggest not going overboard with R entries.
> If there are more than 1 or 2, create a mailing list.

Yes, much better on the patch sender(s) to Cc: 1 or 2 people or lists
than to have to copy/paste 5 or 6 email addresses.

> And more entries will just make the churn and name-decay
> in MAINTAINERS that much more prevalent.
>
> None of those people have any significant
> quantities of commit entries for rcu

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~Randy
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