Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Feb 2007 21:37:50 +0000 (GMT) | From | James Simmons <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: mark framebuffer as Orphan |
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> > > Alot of patches have been flowing into the layer. > > > > So would you like to leave it as Maintained or change it to > > "Odd Fixes"? (Maintained => a maintainer) From the MAINTAINTERS file: > > > > Supported: Someone is actually paid to look after this. > > Maintained: Someone actually looks after it. > > Odd Fixes: It has a maintainer but they don't have time to do > > much other than throw the odd patch in. See below.. > > Orphan: No current maintainer [but maybe you could take the > > role as you write your new code]. > > Obsolete: Old code. Something tagged obsolete generally means > > it has been replaced by a better system and you > > should be using that. > >... > > If you start doing this, there are a lot more entries that need to be > changed... > > Which of Supported/Maintained/"Odd Fixes" is written doesn't matter in > practice. > > What matters is that James' email address gets into the entry so that > patches and bug reports reach him. > > James' work is definitely no below the average of entries marked as > Maintained.
At this point I would say maintained. Plus Tony is coming back :-) Its just recently I have been working on various other things like the display class. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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