[ Resending since my previous reply didn't reach the mailing lists. ] On 11/11/21 5:55 AM, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > 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 > I'm assuming the purging is not totally automated, is it? As long as the entries are informative to a human reader, it should be possible to skip the relevant ones when purging inactive entries. I believe this patch makes the situation better than it is currently (at least for the human reader), by marking lists without public read-access in a format that is more appropriate. In the future, we could perhaps improve on it to ease automation too, but for now I think it is worthwhile to merge this change (unless there are strong objections or better alternatives that everyone agrees on). Regards, Srivatsa
