On 2022-Jul-18, Aleksander Alekseev wrote: > Hi hackers, > > > > If someone put a lot of review into a patchset a few months ago, they > > > absolutely deserve credit. But if that entry has been sitting with no > > > feedback this month, why is it useful to keep that Reviewer around? > > As I recall, several committers reported before that they use > Reviewers field in the CF application when writing the commit message. > I would argue that this is the reason.
Maybe we need two separate reviewer columns -- one for credits (historical tracking) and one for people currently reviewing a patch. So we definitely expect an email "soon" from someone in the second column, but not from somebody who is only in the first column. -- Álvaro Herrera