From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rene Herman Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove email addresses from MODULE_AUTHOR tag Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 23:12:58 +0200 Message-ID: <4644DC5A.7060905@gmail.com> References: <4643C20C.8050105@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.175]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0A51244D5 for ; Fri, 11 May 2007 23:15:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id j3so664066ugf for ; Fri, 11 May 2007 14:15:30 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: Takashi Iwai Cc: ALSA devel , Jaroslav Kysela List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On 05/11/2007 05:52 PM, Takashi Iwai wrote: >> Following up the recent MODULE_MAINTAINER discussion on LKML: >> >> http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/4/170 >> >> that concluded with MODULE_MAINTAINER not being a good idea, here's a patch >> that just deletes the email addresses from the MODULE_AUTHOR tags for ALSA. >> >> The email address is the problem I was trying to fix; with multiple current >> and non-current authors and maintainers who might not even be authors the >> address(es) available from the tag confuse the issue of whom to contact. >> It's moreover also information that easily outdated. >> >> A bit more than half of the tags in the kernel don't include an email >> address already (the core contributors typically don't include any) and I'll >> submit patches removing more. > > Did we get consensus about this removal action? > I've seen only one follow up by Krzysztof. > (I personlly don't mind to remove mail addresses, though.) Yep, Krysztof was the only one to specifically ACK but seeing as how I asked for objections: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/27/488 I took not seeing any as more ACKs. Alan Cox is objecting a bit again though preferring the originally proposed MODULE_MAINTAINER: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/10/628 I seem unlikely to convince him but I believe it's upto specific subsystems whether or not they'll take patches removing the email adresses from the tag, ie, in the case of ALSA upto you and Jaroslav. I do believe it actually solves a problem. In the end, all that I really care about are the ones that I specifically want to take on (which in the case of ALSA is eventually most or all of isa/, but I'm not sufficiently upto speed yet, and certainly not on the _real_ driver code as opposed to the bus glue) but in a global sense, I'd like to just see them all go. Rene.