On 06/03/2014 03:27 AM, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 12:11:55PM -0700, j...@joshtriplett.org wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 12:08:21PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: >>> On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 11:56:35AM -0700, j...@joshtriplett.org wrote: >>>> On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 11:16:58AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: >>>>> On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 10:59:28AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: >>>>>> On Mon, 2014-06-02 at 10:48 -0700, j...@joshtriplett.org wrote: >>>>>>> On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 10:22:58AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: >>>>>>>> On Mon, 2014-06-02 at 10:00 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: >>>>>>>>> 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. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I'm not sure of the value of this. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Why not just mark the actual reviewers as maintainers? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> As discussed in the kernel summit discussion, being a regular patch >>>>>>> reviewer isn't the same thing as being *the* maintainer. >>>>>> >>>>>> I think it's not particularly important or valuable >>>>>> here to make that distinction. >>>>>> >>>>>> What real difference does it make? >>>>> >>>>> In the particular case of Josh, none, at least from my viewpoint. He of >>>>> course might or might not want to take on additional maintainership >>>>> responsibility at this particular point in time, in which case, I would >>>>> be more than happy to have him as a designated maintainer. >>>> >>>> For the record, I'd be happy to be listed as a co-maintainer for RCU. :) >>> >>> I would be happy to put you down as maintainer and Steven down as >>> official reviewer. ;-) >> >> I'd suggest adding Mathieu Desnoyers, Oleg Nesterov, and Lai Jiangshan >> as reviewers as well, with their consent. > > Mathieu, Oleg, Lai, any objections? > >
I agree to add me. Thanks, Lai -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
