Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC] Moving unseen/inactive MAINTAINER M: names and email addresses to CREDITS | From | Ben Hutchings <> | Date | Fri, 29 May 2015 04:20:48 +0100 |
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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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