From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Albert ARIBAUD Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 13:18:13 +0100 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] cosmetic: boards.cfg: mark dead email addresses In-Reply-To: <20140306115546.GB16805@bill-the-cat> References: <1393584477-6841-1-git-send-email-yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com> <20140228150501.GR16805@bill-the-cat> <20140306170524.6EB9.AA925319@jp.panasonic.com> <20140306115546.GB16805@bill-the-cat> Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Hi Tom, On Thu, 6 Mar 2014 06:55:46 -0500, Tom Rini wrote: > On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 11:10:56AM +0100, Albert ARIBAUD wrote: > > Hi Masahiro, > > > > On Thu, 06 Mar 2014 17:05:24 +0900, Masahiro Yamada > > wrote: > > > > > Hello Tom, > > > (dropping dead emails from Cc) > > > (adding Albert to Cc) > > > > > > > > When I Cced board maintainers, some of them resulted > > > > > in bounce mails. > > > > > I'd say at least 8 addresses (listed as Cc: below) > > > > > are dead. > > > > > > > > > > After discussing with Detlev, I agreed to just mark > > > > > them as dead address and keep them. > > > > > Deleting the e-mail means loosing important information. > > > > > > > > [snip] > > > > For the blackfin ones where we have Sonic also listed as a maintainer, > > > > Sonic are you maintaining them? If so, please update the entries to > > > > update or remove the other addresses. > > > > > > OK. I can do this. > > > > > > > And for all of the other boards, > > > > if the maintainer has a bouncing email address I would say that > > > > qualifies as moving from Active to Inactive. > > > > > > You mean, from "Active" to "Orphan"? > > > ( Because the first column is 6 charactors width, > > > "Incactive" corrupts the format and we would have to run > > > tools/reformat.py again.) > > > > > > > > > Besides, should I move "Orphan" boards to the bottom of boards.cfg? > > > > tools/reformat.py handles column sizing and sorting, precisely to spare > > the bother to people who use it. > > > > > 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 ? That would make sure that no mail is ever submitted to a correct domain with a bogus recipient. Amicalement, -- Albert.