From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753385AbbE0VGi (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 May 2015 17:06:38 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:57398 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753258AbbE0VGg (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 May 2015 17:06:36 -0400 Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 14:06:35 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Joe Perches Cc: LKML Subject: Re: [RFC] Moving unseen/inactive MAINTAINER M: names and email addresses to CREDITS Message-Id: <20150527140635.16c31ed0a5e9ef8ded2223fc@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1432760504.2846.177.camel@perches.com> References: <1432760504.2846.177.camel@perches.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.4.1 (GTK+ 2.24.23; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 27 May 2015 14:01:44 -0700 Joe Perches 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".