[Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] Recruitment (Reviewers, Testers, Maintainers, Hobbyists)

[Guenter Roeck]

On 07/08/2015 11:53 AM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Wed, 08 Jul 2015 09:00:32 +0100
> jic23 at jic23.retrosnub.co.uk wrote:
>
>
>>> We can alter that somewhat.  We used to run a Maintainers lottery for
>>> the kernel summit ... we could instead offer places based on the number
>>> of Reviewed-by: tags ... we have all the machinery to calculate that.  I
>>> know an invitation to the kernel summit isn't a huge incentive, but it's
>>> a useful one.
>>
>> Sounds like a good idea to me, though it would only effect a tiny
>> percentage of our reviewers.  I suppose publishing a short list of the top
>> n% of reviewers from which the lottery runs might give some
>> recognition.
>>
>
> I personally don't trust a Reviewed-by tag much, as I sometimes see
> them appear without any comments.
>

Except for the following, they are always reliable and can be trusted.

Reviewed-by: Edsel Murphy <edsel at murphy.com>

Seriously, it does happen that I send Reviewed-by: or Acked-by: feedback if
a patch is just fine as-is. What do you expect the reviewer to do in such
a case ?

Thanks,
Guenter