From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Moving unseen/inactive MAINTAINER M: names and email addresses to CREDITS
Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 14:06:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150527140635.16c31ed0a5e9ef8ded2223fc@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1432760504.2846.177.camel@perches.com>
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".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-27 21:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-27 21:01 Joe Perches
2015-05-27 21:06 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2015-05-28 19:59 ` Joe Perches
2015-05-29 3:20 ` Ben Hutchings
2015-05-29 3:25 ` Joe Perches
2015-05-29 6:58 ` Sudip Mukherjee
2015-05-29 15:38 ` Laura Abbott
2015-05-29 16:35 ` Joe Perches
2015-06-23 18:49 ` Pavel Machek
2015-06-23 20:02 ` Joe Perches
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