On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 08:00:17AM +0200, Lukas Bulwahn wrote: > Dear Qlogic driver maintainers, dear Nilesh, deat Shahed, dear Manish, > > > during an unrelated kernel clean-up task, I noticed some LICENSE files for > the qlogic drivers hanging around in Documentation. > > Thomas Gleixner has provided you a patch series in June 2019 to pick up or > simply add a Reviewed-by tag here: > > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-spdx/20190606205526.447558989@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > As it seems from the public mailing list archive, you have never responded > to Thomas' request. If you could indicate that the change is fine for you, > I am happy to rebase the patch series to the current next tree, so that > Thomas can pick that up and let it travel through the spdx tree to Linus > for the next release. > > See first reminder here: > > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-spdx/alpine.DEB.2.21.2006300644130.4919@felia/ > > Just to let you know, I will send a third reminder in a few months, and > if there is no response to that, I will just send a patch to mark those > drivers where QLogic-Storage-Upstream@xxxxxxxxxx or > GR-Linux-NIC-Dev@xxxxxxxxxxx are maintainers as Orphaned, just to keep > MAINTAINERS reflect the actual state. This is why I hate having "group aliases" as maintainers. It doesn't work as we never know who "really" is maintaining the code, and there is no accountability. Given the length of a lack of response so far, I would suggest just marking it orphaned now. If someone wants to step up in the future to maintain it, great, but it needs to be a person, not an email alias. thanks, greg k-h
