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

[Joe Perches]

On Tue, 2014-06-03 at 08:35 -0700, Paul E. McKenney 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.
[]
> diff --git 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

Perhaps the M: and R: roles should be more fully
described here.

The R: entry description doesn't need commas.

Maybe something like:
	M: Maintainer (to:) FullName <address@domain>
	R: Reviewer   (cc:) FullName <address@domain>

You might as well send the get_maintainer update with this
series too.


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