From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15C74C43441 for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2018 19:43:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9E04223CB for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2018 19:43:56 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org D9E04223CB Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=perches.com Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728929AbeKPFxE (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Nov 2018 00:53:04 -0500 Received: from smtprelay0114.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.114]:38674 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725742AbeKPFxE (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Nov 2018 00:53:04 -0500 Received: from filter.hostedemail.com (clb03-v110.bra.tucows.net [216.40.38.60]) by smtprelay02.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBABA6D70; Thu, 15 Nov 2018 19:43:53 +0000 (UTC) X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-HE-Tag: mind54_4b811205932d X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 2447 Received: from XPS-9350.home (unknown [47.151.153.53]) (Authenticated sender: joe@perches.com) by omf12.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA; Thu, 15 Nov 2018 19:43:52 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [RFC PATCH 3/3] libnvdimm, MAINTAINERS: Subsystem Profile From: Joe Perches To: "Luck, Tony" , Leon Romanovsky , Mauro Carvalho Chehab Cc: "Jiang, Dave" , "ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org" , "linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org" , "Verma, Vishal L" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , "zwisler@kernel.org" Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2018 11:43:51 -0800 In-Reply-To: <3908561D78D1C84285E8C5FCA982C28F7D459E55@ORSMSX110.amr.corp.intel.com> References: <154225759358.2499188.15268218778137905050.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com> <154225761038.2499188.1270468803677883744.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com> <20181115061036.1575223d@silica.lan> <20181115162008.GO3759@mtr-leonro.mtl.com> <20181115110919.46978343@silica.lan> <20181115193520.GA24359@mtr-leonro.mtl.com> <3908561D78D1C84285E8C5FCA982C28F7D459E55@ORSMSX110.amr.corp.intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" User-Agent: Evolution 3.30.1-1build1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2018-11-15 at 19:40 +0000, Luck, Tony wrote: > > I would recommend to remove this section at all. > > New maintainers won't come out of blue, but will be come > > from existing community and such individuals for sure will see > > and judge by themselves to whom they trust and to whom not. > > Perhaps this is more of a hint to contributors than to maintainers > (see earlier discussion on who is the target audience for these documents). > > It would help contributors know some names of useful reviewers (and > thus this list should be picked up by scripts/get_maintainer.pl to help > the user compose Cc: lists for e-mail patches). Trusted reviewers should be specifically listed in the MAINTAINERS file with an "R:" entry. get_maintainers should not look anywhere else.