[U-Boot] [PATCH] cosmetic: boards.cfg: mark dead email addresses

[Tom Rini <trini@ti.com>]

On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 05:38:40PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> Hello Tom, Albert,
> 
> > > > 
> > > > > It is not clear to me when we should change the board status
> > > > > from "Active" to "Orphan". 
> > > > > (Could you show me the basic guideline, Tom ? or Albert ?)
> > > > > There are many boards without maintainers, which are still "Active".
> > > > 
> > > > This is a known, and so far, open, question. Right now, orphan boards
> > > > are those which were marked so in the former MAINTAINERS file. My
> > > > personal opinion is that "Active" should mean the board is
> > > > activelymaintained and any maintainer e-mail address associated
> > > > with the board is that of an active maintainer, and "Orphan" means the
> > > > board is not actively maintained any more but still builds, and any
> > > > address associated with it is that of the last known maintainer(s).
> > > 
> > > +1 to this definition and yes, oops, I meant Orphan not Inactive.
> > 
> > We should clarify this definition of Active/Orphan in the boards.cfg
> > header text.
> > 
> > Also, maybe we could simply mark dead addresses by suffixing the domain
> > part with ".invalid"? For instance, the "dead" form of my own e-mail
> > address would be <albert.u.boot@aribaud.net.invalid>? That would make
> > sure that no mail is ever submitted to a correct domain with a bogus
> > recipient.
> 
> 
> Definition:
>    "Active" should mean the board is activelymaintained and any
>    maintainer e-mail address associated with the board is that of an
>    active maintainer, and "Orphan" means the board is not actively
>    maintained any more but still builds, and any address associated
>   with it is that of the last known maintainer(s).
> 
> If we adopt this definition, adding "dead address" or ".invalid"
> is redundant, isn't it?
> 
> Changing the status to "Orphan" is enough
> because "Orphan" declares its email address is invalid.

Yes.

-- 
Tom
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