Delegate Vs Reviewer

[Damien Lespiau]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 01:42:21PM +0800, Jeremy Kerr wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 05:35:11PM +0000, Damien Lespiau wrote:
> >> I'd like to be able to assign reviewers to patches. That seems very
> >> close to what a delegate is today. Would anyone have objections if I
> >> just use Delegate as Reviewer?
> > 
> > I'm honestly not sure what Delegate is intended for. It seems like its
> > purpose is open to your interpretation.
> 
> One example: on the powerpc list, we have an overall maintainer, and
> several sub-maintainers, who are generally responsible for their own
> subsystem or set of hardware.
> 
> If a patch for one of the sub-maintiners' areas appears, it can be
> delegated to the appropriate person to review, test, and/or merge. The
> change is then included in the next merge-request from the
> sub-maintainer to the main maintainer.
> 
> In this case, patch review is only one of the tasks of the delegate.

Thanks for the explanation. I have to say I'm not the biggest fan of a
field with multiple and project-dependent meanings. I guess I'll
introduce a separate reviewer field then.

-- 
Damien