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.