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Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 00:49:17 +0200
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Removing maintainer's bad e-mails
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On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 02:33:00PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 01:50:43AM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> 
>  > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
>  > --- a/MAINTAINERS
>  > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
>  > @@ -204,8 +204,6 @@ S:	Maintained
>  > 
>  > ADVANSYS SCSI DRIVER
>  > P:	Bob Frey
>  > -M:	linux@advansys.com
>  > -W:	http://www.advansys.com/linux.html
>  > L:	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
>  > S:	Maintained
> 
> You may as well change the S: to unmaintained whilst
> you're there, it hasn't seen any updates in a long time,
> and still uses several out-of-date SCSI APIs.

Or he could completely remove the entry.

We don't have entries for every single unmaintained driver, and the 
smaller MAINTAINERS is the higher is the possibility of not missing a 
relevant entry when checking whom to send an email.

> 		Dave

cu
Adrian

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