Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Update email address for Joel Fernandes

[Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>]

On 1/7/2026 12:31 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Jan 2026 12:20:42 -0500
> Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com> wrote:
> 
>> Thank you for the suggestion! Unfortunately, that would hide the company
>> attribution too. Or require it to be in brackets along with the name. There
>> appears to be resistance to both these. I do feel fortunate to get company time
>> to work upstream, so, on this matter, I have to go with the company's
>> preferences.;-). There also appears to be significant progress now to resolve
>> the email issues which looks promising (thanks Jason, John and everyone for the
>> efforts!).
> 
> The one issue I have with people using (or being forced to use) their work
> email address is that people switch companies all the time. I find it very
> annoying when Cc's suddenly get bounced because it is going to the old
> company email address. Worse yet when the developer is still involved with
> the upstream community and now they are simply not getting email that they
> should be.

Perhaps the .mailmap file will help for that? Though I guess not everyone may
update it once they discontinue old email addresses.

>> Happy New Year! Thanks,
> 
> Happy New Year to you Joel!
> 

Thank you!

 - Joel