On Wed, 10 Nov 2021 21:19:53 -0800 Joe Perches wrote: > On Wed, 2021-11-10 at 17:39 -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Nov 2021 12:09:06 -0800 Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: > > > DRM DRIVER FOR VMWARE VIRTUAL GPU > > > -M: "VMware Graphics" <linux-graphics-maintainer@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > M: Zack Rusin <zackr@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > +R: VMware Graphics Reviewers <linux-graphics-maintainer@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > L: dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > S: Supported > > > T: git git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm-misc > > > > It'd be preferable for these corporate entries to be marked or > > otherwise distinguishable so that we can ignore them when we try > > to purge MAINTAINERS from developers who stopped participating. > > > > These addresses will never show up in a commit tag which is normally > > sign of inactivity. > > Funny. > > The link below is from over 5 years ago. > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1472081625.3746.217.camel@xxxxxxxxxxx/ > > Almost all of those entries are still in MAINTAINERS. > > I think the concept of purging is a non-issue. I cleaned networking in January and intend to do it again in 2 months. See: 054c4610bd05 MAINTAINERS: dccp: move Gerrit Renker to CREDITS 4f3786e01194 MAINTAINERS: ipvs: move Wensong Zhang to CREDITS 0e4ed0b62b5a MAINTAINERS: tls: move Aviad to CREDITS c41efbf2ad56 MAINTAINERS: ena: remove Zorik Machulsky from reviewers 5e62d124f75a MAINTAINERS: vrf: move Shrijeet to CREDITS 09cd3f4683a9 MAINTAINERS: net: move Alexey Kuznetsov to CREDITS 93089de91e85 MAINTAINERS: altx: move Jay Cliburn to CREDITS 8b0f64b113d6 MAINTAINERS: remove names from mailing list maintainers