Re: [Qemu-devel] Bouncing maintainers

[John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>]

On 03/26/2015 09:19 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 25.03.2015 um 16:45 hat John Snow geschrieben:
>>
>>
>> On 03/25/2015 10:48 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>>> I just had another cc: to an address gotten from MAINTAINERS bounce with
>>> "user unknown".
>>>
>>> How do we weed out dead MAINTAINERS entries?
>>>
>>
>> Automated spambot that runs once a release cycle and reports back to
>> the list which entries were dead?
>
> I don't need more email. Why can't we just send a patch to MAINTAINERS
> dropping the line the first time someone actually notices it?
>
> Kevin
>

Could make a bot that just watches from: addresses on the list. If it 
sees a mail from you within the last release cycle, it assumes you are 
still alive.

If it doesn't hear from you for an entire release cycle, it sends out a 
small ping and looks for bounces.

Only once a release would be not more than four times a year, and most 
active maintainers would never see a single email.

Or, yes, manually when it happens...