From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932391AbVHIA5E (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Aug 2005 20:57:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932395AbVHIA5E (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Aug 2005 20:57:04 -0400 Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:32785 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932391AbVHIA5D (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Aug 2005 20:57:03 -0400 Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 02:56:59 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Cc: Dave Jones , Jiri Slaby , Andrew Morton , Rolf Eike Beer Subject: Re: [PATCH] Removing maintainer's bad e-mails Message-ID: <20050809005659.GT4006@stusta.de> References: <42F69E53.40602@gmail.com> <20050808183300.GB26182@redhat.com> <20050808224917.GP4006@stusta.de> <20050809003140.GJ7667@kurtwerks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050809003140.GJ7667@kurtwerks.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 08:31:40PM -0400, Kurt Wall wrote: > On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 12:49:17AM +0200, Adrian Bunk took 42 lines to write: > > On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 02:33:00PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > > > > > > 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 and still uses several out-of-date SCSI APIs.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. > > Hmm, so if a subsystem or driver (more drivers, I should think) lacks > an entry in MAINTAINERS, is it then reasonable to assume that it is > unmaintained? If not, perhaps creating a separate list of unmaintained > subsystems and/or drivers is prudent? For unmaintained drivers or drivers maintained by the subsystem maintainers (which can be the reason why there's no entry for this driver) contact the subsystem maintainer. Unmaintained subsystems are a problem. I've already started contacting subsystem maintainers that seem to be inactive, and I have some restructuring of MAINTAINERS (tree structure with drivers behind subsystems) on my TODO list. > Kurt cu Adrian BTW: Please don't remove people from the Cc when answering. -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed