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From: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
To: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: device-mapper development <dm-devel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Mark device-mapper as Supported in MAINTAINERS
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:13:08 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200903121413.09140.knikanth@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090305180711.GI12302@agk.fab.redhat.com>

On Thursday 05 March 2009 23:37:11 Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 10:05:41AM +0530, Nikanth Karthikesan wrote:
> > Mark device-mapper as Supported in MAINTAINERS file.
>
>         Supported:      Someone is actually paid to look after this.
>         Maintained:     Someone actually looks after it.
>
> Both of those apply and I would argue that, given the use of the word
> 'actually' in those definitions, 'Maintained' is better than 'Supported'.
>

I think that 'Supported' is a superset of 'Maintained'.

In general the list looks like specifies the 'status' from maximum support to 
nothing. Supported > Maintained > Odd Fixes > Orphan > Obsolete ?

Thanks
Nikanth

      reply	other threads:[~2009-03-12  8:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-03  4:35 [PATCH] Mark device-mapper as Supported in MAINTAINERS Nikanth Karthikesan
2009-03-05 18:07 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2009-03-12  8:43   ` Nikanth Karthikesan [this message]

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