[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] maintainers: New Reviewer entry type added to MAINTAINERS

[Thomas Monjalon]

01/10/2020 23:22, Chautru, Nicolas:
> From: trix at redhat.com <trix at redhat.com>
> > From: Tom Rix <trix at redhat.com>
> > 
> > Copied from the Linux kernel MAINTAINERS file.
> > A Reviewer is designated person who wishes to review changes in areas of
> > interest.
> > 
> > Added self as Reviewer for baseband.
> > 
> > I am a Linux kernel Reviewer for the fpga n3000/vista creek which has
> > several bitstream based baseband devices.  So I want to help out here as
> > well.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Tom Rix <trix at redhat.com>
> 
> Thanks for the help. 
> Note that they are a few other BBDEV patches in flight for 20.11 on top of the acc100 PMD that you may want to be aware of. 
> https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=&submitter=chautru&state=&q=&archive=&delegate=
> 
> Acked-by: Nicolas Chautru <nicolas.chautru at intel.com>
[...]
> >  Baseband API - EXPERIMENTAL
> >  M: Nicolas Chautru <nicolas.chautru at intel.com>
> > +R: Tom Rix <trix at redhat.com>

I don't understand the need of differenciating maintainer and reviewer.
If you are trusted enough, why not just being co-maintainer?