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

Chanwoo Choi cw00.choi at samsung.com
Wed Oct 28 01:57:05 PDT 2015


Hi Lee,

On 2015년 10월 28일 00:42, Lee Jones wrote:
> Since eafbaac ("MAINTAINERS: Add "R:" designated-reviewers tag") we
> have been able to tag specific people as Reviewers.  These are key
> individuals who are tasked with or volunteer to review code submitted
> to a subsystem or specific file.  However, according to MAINTAINERS
> we have 1046 Maintainers and only a mere 22 Reviewers.  I believe
> these numbers to be incorrect, as many of these Maintainers are in
> fact Reviewers.
> 
> I have taken the time to identify some of the Reviewers who pertain
> to subsystems which I look after, and have changed their status from
> Maintainer (collector of patches) to Reviewer (reviewer of code).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones at linaro.org>
> ---
> 
>  MAINTAINERS | 22 +++++++++++-----------
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

Although this patch don't include the entry of drivers/extcon,
I agree your opinion to add 'R' for Reviewer.

Acked-by: Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi at samsung.com>

Thanks,
Chanwoo Choi




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