Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Start using the 'reviewer' (R) tag

From: Krzysztof Kozlowski
Date: Wed Oct 28 2015 - 19:56:50 EST


On 28.10.2015 23:38, Lee Jones wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Oct 2015, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
>> They are not maintainers according to your definition of maintainer
>> that doesn't seem what most people agree with.
>
> "most people" so far are 3 people that I assume still want to be
> Maintainers despite not actually conducting Maintainer duties, but
> are rather Reviewers. I also have 2 Acks for this patch, so thus far
> that's 3 that agree and 3 that do not. Unsurprisingly the ones that
> agree are Maintainers and the ones who are not are (by my definition)
> Reviewers -- go figure.
>

I am not sure on which side you put me finally. :)
If there is a consensus among some more experienced developers that
maintainer means branch and patches maintaining, then I won't see any
problem with the patch nor with switching Samsung PMIC entries to review.

In that case, that would be:
Acked-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Best regards,
Krzysztof

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