From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161031AbbE2PjJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 May 2015 11:39:09 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:48447 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756501AbbE2Piv (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 May 2015 11:38:51 -0400 Message-ID: <55688803.8060204@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 08:38:43 -0700 From: Laura Abbott User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joe Perches , Andrew Morton CC: LKML Subject: Re: [RFC] Moving unseen/inactive MAINTAINER M: names and email addresses to CREDITS References: <1432760504.2846.177.camel@perches.com> <20150527140635.16c31ed0a5e9ef8ded2223fc@linux-foundation.org> <1432843185.1556.19.camel@perches.com> In-Reply-To: <1432843185.1556.19.camel@perches.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 05/28/2015 12:59 PM, Joe Perches wrote: > On Wed, 2015-05-27 at 14:06 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: >> On Wed, 27 May 2015 14:01:44 -0700 Joe Perches wrote: >>> There are about 950 unique M: names in MAINTAINERS. >>> >>> About 200 of those names haven't signed or authored a >>> single commit in 3+ years. >>> >>> Any desire to shorten the MAINTAINERS entries and orphan >>> or delete those sections that that seem to have a single >>> apparently inactive maintainer? >>> >>> Maybe 25 of those M: entries are actually email exploder >>> type uses that should likely stay listed. >> >> Yes, I suppose we should clean this up. At present we're misleading >> people about the likely outcome of their emails. And we're misleading >> people (like me) who see the email and think "ok, someone's taking care >> of that". > > This is the list of maintainer names/sections that seem > not to have signed, authored or acked a commit in 3 years. > > After some editing and additional grepping, I got 133 entries. > > The grep patterns I used are imperfect. > > For instance, the MAINTAINERS file has "Hideaki Yoshifuji" but > he doesn't ever sign anything that way. His signature is > "Yoshifuji Hideaki". > > If anyone sees any obvious false-positives, please let me know. > > I'll send a private email to all these people and see if they > want to be listed in the MAINTAINERS file and see what happens. > > Here is the list two ways, alphabetic by name and by section > > By Name: > > Riley Andrews ANDROID DRIVERS I just saw patches from Riley this morning for the binder driver. Riley took over as the binder maintainer when it moved out of staging earlier this year. Thanks, Laura