Re: [RFC] Moving unseen/inactive MAINTAINER M: names and email addresses to CREDITS

[Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>]

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On Thu, 2015-05-28 at 12:59 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-05-27 at 14:06 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Wed, 27 May 2015 14:01:44 -0700 Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> > > There are about 950 unique M: names in MAINTAINERS.
> > > 
> > > About 200 of those names haven't signed or authored a
> > > single commit in 3+ years.
> > > 
> > > Any desire to shorten the MAINTAINERS entries and orphan
> > > or delete those sections that that seem to have a single
> > > apparently inactive maintainer?
> > > 
> > > Maybe 25 of those M: entries are actually email exploder
> > > type uses that should likely stay listed.
> > 
> > Yes, I suppose we should clean this up.  At present we're misleading
> > people about the likely outcome of their emails.  And we're misleading
> > people (like me) who see the email and think "ok, someone's taking care
> > of that".
> 
> This is the list of maintainer names/sections that seem
> not to have signed, authored or acked a commit in 3 years.
> 
> After some editing and additional grepping, I got 133 entries.
> 
> The grep patterns I used are imperfect.
> 
> For instance, the MAINTAINERS file has "Hideaki Yoshifuji" but
> he doesn't ever sign anything that way.  His signature is
> "Yoshifuji Hideaki".
> 
> If anyone sees any obvious false-positives, please let me know.
> 
> I'll send a private email to all these people and see if they
> want to be listed in the MAINTAINERS file and see what happens.
> 
> Here is the list two ways, alphabetic by name and by section
[...]
> Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net>            	LIS3LV02D ACCELEROMETER DRIVER

I see a few Reviewed-by: Éric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net> (note
the added accent).

[...]
> Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>                         	UNIFDEF
[...]

He's still upstream maintainer for unifdef, even if we haven't updated
our embedded copy.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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