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

[Joe Perches]

On Mon, 2014-06-02 at 13:29 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Jun 2014 10:22:58 -0700 Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > 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.
[]
> > Why not just mark the actual reviewers as maintainers?
[]
> If you have a person that regularly reviews a patch and wants to be
> Cc'd on all of them, then why not add them to MAINTAINERS?

So we agree on that.
 
> > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > []
> > > @@ -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.
[]
> Or perhaps after L:

Either would be fine as long as the order is the same
in the actual subsystem section entries that follow.


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