Re: [PATCH v2 RFC 1/3] MAINTAINERS: Add "R:" designated-reviewers tag

[Steven Rostedt]

On Tue,  3 Jun 2014 08:35:34 -0700
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> A ksummit-discuss email thread looked at the difficulty recruiting
> and retaining reviewers.  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.  This commit does just that, and a subsequent
> commit tags the designated reviewer for the RCU-related subsystems.
> 
> http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/ksummit-discuss/2014-May/000830.html
> 
> Suggested-by: Paul Walmsley <paul@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

-- Steve

> ---
>  MAINTAINERS | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 6dc67b1fdb50..8513adb1135d 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -70,6 +70,8 @@ Descriptions of section entries:
>  
>  	P: Person (obsolete)
>  	M: Mail patches to: FullName <address@domain>
> +	R: Designated reviewer, who should be CCed on patches,
> +	   format: FullName <address@domain>
>  	L: Mailing list that is relevant to this area
>  	W: Web-page with status/info
>  	Q: Patchwork web based patch tracking system site

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