Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [RFC PATCH 3/3] libnvdimm, MAINTAINERS: Subsystem Profile

[Joe Perches]

On Thu, 2018-11-15 at 19:40 +0000, Luck, Tony wrote:
> > I would recommend to remove this section at all.
> > New maintainers won't come out of blue, but will be come
> > from existing community and such individuals for sure will see
> > and judge by themselves to whom they trust and to whom not.
> 
> Perhaps this is more of a hint to contributors than to maintainers
> (see earlier discussion on who is the target audience for these documents).
> 
> It would help contributors know some names of useful reviewers (and
> thus this list should be picked up by scripts/get_maintainer.pl to help
> the user compose Cc: lists for e-mail patches).

Trusted reviewers should be specifically listed
in the MAINTAINERS file with an "R:" entry.

get_maintainers should not look anywhere else.