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

Tom Rix trix at redhat.com
Fri Oct 2 16:59:39 CEST 2020


On 10/1/20 2:54 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 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?
>
I want to help out with the reviews, the reviewer type makes clear this level of commitment.

Maintainer is the next, higher level of commitment.


Trust wise, this would allow the maintainer verify the reviewer does have the bandwidth to be responsive

and effective before committing to sharing responsibility.

Tom

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