On 2022-Jul-18, Aleksander Alekseev wrote:
> Hi hackers,
>
> > > If someone put a lot of review into a patchset a few months ago, they
> > > absolutely deserve credit. But if that entry has been sitting with no
> > > feedback this month, why is it useful to keep that Reviewer around?
>
> As I recall, several committers reported before that they use
> Reviewers field in the CF application when writing the commit message.
> I would argue that this is the reason.
Maybe we need two separate reviewer columns -- one for credits
(historical tracking) and one for people currently reviewing a patch.
So we definitely expect an email "soon" from someone in the second
column, but not from somebody who is only in the first column.
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Álvaro Herrera