From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755345AbbE2DVH (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 May 2015 23:21:07 -0400 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:48788 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752016AbbE2DVE (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 May 2015 23:21:04 -0400 Message-ID: <1432869648.6319.48.camel@decadent.org.uk> Subject: Re: [RFC] Moving unseen/inactive MAINTAINER M: names and email addresses to CREDITS From: Ben Hutchings To: Joe Perches Cc: Andrew Morton , LKML Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 04:20:48 +0100 In-Reply-To: <1432843185.1556.19.camel@perches.com> References: <1432760504.2846.177.camel@perches.com> <20150527140635.16c31ed0a5e9ef8ded2223fc@linux-foundation.org> <1432843185.1556.19.camel@perches.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha512"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-OPtppLBW6cmJLwepUBSu" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.12.9-1+b1 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.168.4.249 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --=-OPtppLBW6cmJLwepUBSu Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 wrote: > > > There are about 950 unique M: names in MAINTAINERS. > > >=20 > > > About 200 of those names haven't signed or authored a > > > single commit in 3+ years. > > >=20 > > > Any desire to shorten the MAINTAINERS entries and orphan > > > or delete those sections that that seem to have a single > > > apparently inactive maintainer? > > >=20 > > > Maybe 25 of those M: entries are actually email exploder > > > type uses that should likely stay listed. > >=20 > > 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". >=20 > This is the list of maintainer names/sections that seem > not to have signed, authored or acked a commit in 3 years. >=20 > After some editing and additional grepping, I got 133 entries. >=20 > The grep patterns I used are imperfect. >=20 > For instance, the MAINTAINERS file has "Hideaki Yoshifuji" but > he doesn't ever sign anything that way. His signature is > "Yoshifuji Hideaki". >=20 > If anyone sees any obvious false-positives, please let me know. >=20 > 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. >=20 > Here is the list two ways, alphabetic by name and by section [...] > Eric Piel LIS3LV02D ACCELEROMETE= R DRIVER I see a few Reviewed-by: =C3=89ric Piel (note the added accent). [...] > Tony Finch UNIFDEF [...] He's still upstream maintainer for unifdef, even if we haven't updated our embedded copy. Ben. --=20 Ben Hutchings Make three consecutive correct guesses and you will be considered an expert= . --=-OPtppLBW6cmJLwepUBSu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIVAwUAVWfbF+e/yOyVhhEJAQo/4A//Tm9XN+m1vsV4zhZxEOygOZN2cgv63WCw NPVXRFDkL4xBElQV4EUBH+L/guSIB4CPoJfQpeTXYcXRxmlpebNwuC5LrsabWgf6 uHN/nBXW0vQQNsJeOMjcLcPUp/CLZW/FGazh8OvXCme5fdMu2p83ArgsrNg5vSsA 6Vf4ihuWJKmTX3CEoSY5fWcqXpR10IQb9y+RgtNj9mhAkkVLFUhey2B1MyMwGP14 iOF6oPUSZ3bj0aD5C+WvDNLIcS9UE/xXFoXcpFoYs3AkH32fc2gNlNbl2XYNLEx4 ycFLh/SeSUgKhDDkvWo2XYmjliBUymTDalbi0/4/UrBmmj/ANnrs6Nu7x1gjbdbN QNoswPmplwY3n/Cu5DrbahArWKEw5/9xycpIUxSsyKpnUTiv5Dc7aS94FW/yimtG a6ZKRYdO6pZ89ufABElpuOeE7k0Ed8vo6GD9FWaurke8CBvTcSXyyMUXO4fWoVIS AffotlZhoP39GtAeg9vtt1D8jI4z+rABc+biDh4XmI0OgAOziiLMBxzbSo2jUcb8 mAc1tn0Z016/wKHrwi3qxKq9sf0fGwJpdKcZqPO4JtMTYXw+bMhE9belZ0iJ/Rfn ajNVkjtiD5WdMf6U3a+FOlzEJVv1wXKLparNGoEoTPfrcyjbGzeaDSV/n3LKyBpu KalFe25Q9Bc= =QGtK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-OPtppLBW6cmJLwepUBSu--