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Re: MAINTAINERS without commits in the last 3 years

From Anders Larsen <al@alarsen.net>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: MAINTAINERS without commits in the last 3 years
Date 2016-08-30 17:30 +0200
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On Wednesday, 2016-08-24 16:33 Joe Perches wrote:
> Many email addresses in MAINTAINERS no longer work so many
> sections in
> MAINTAINERS could likely be considered either
> obsolete or unmaintained.

Whereas I agree it's helpful to purge dysfunctional adresses...

> These M: entries in MAINTAINERS haven't authored or had any
> <foo>-by: signature entries in git log for the last 3 years.

...IMHO just because there hasn't been any activity for <arbitrary
amount of time> does not automatically mean the subsystem in question
has been abandoned.

I'm using "my" subsystem (QNX4 FS) almost daily, so I don't believe
anything would be gained if get_maintainers.pl would stop keeping me
in the loop.

Cheers
Anders

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Re: MAINTAINERS without commits in the last 3 years Anders Larsen <al@alarsen.net> - 2016-08-30 17:30 +0200
  Re: MAINTAINERS without commits in the last 3 years Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-08-30 17:40 +0200

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