Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 2 Jun 2014 12:50:17 -0700 | From | "Paul E. McKenney" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH RFC 1/2] MAINTAINERS: Add "R:" designated-reviewers tag |
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On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 12:36:22PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > On Mon, 2014-06-02 at 12:27 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 12:11:55PM -0700, josh@joshtriplett.org wrote: > > > > > > I'd suggest adding Mathieu Desnoyers, Oleg Nesterov, and Lai Jiangshan > > > as reviewers as well, with their consent. > > > > Mathieu, Oleg, Lai, any objections? > > I suggest not going overboard with R entries. > If there are more than 1 or 2, create a mailing list.
Having a limit of two seems reasonable. First to the post, then. Or maybe last to object? ;-)
> And more entries will just make the churn and name-decay > in MAINTAINERS that much more prevalent. > > None of those people have any significant > quantities of commit entries for rcu > > (with the get_maintainer patch posted) > > $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f kernel/rcu/ --git --git-min-percent=3 > Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> (supporter:READ-COPY UPDATE...) > "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (supporter:READ-COPY UPDATE...,commit_signer:82/85=96%,authored:58/85=68%) > Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> (reviewer,commit_signer:56/85=66%) > Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> (commit_signer:5/85=6%) > Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> (commit_signer:5/85=6%) > Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> (commit_signer:3/85=4%) > Andreea-Cristina Bernat <bernat.ada@gmail.com> (authored:3/85=4%) > linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list:READ-COPY UPDATE...)
Good to know, but then again, I sometimes review patches in areas where I have no commits.
Thanx, Paul
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