Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC V1] MAINTAINERS: Addition of Dialog Semiconductor files | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Sat, 08 Mar 2014 08:39:37 -0800 |
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On Sat, 2014-03-08 at 10:45 +0000, Opensource [Steve Twiss] wrote: > On 07 March 2014 16:25 Joe Perches wrote: > > >> Dialog Semiconductor would like to add a new section called DIALOG > >> SEMICONDUCTOR DRIVERS which contains the new support mailing list > >> <support.opensource@diasemi.com> for Dialog supported drivers. > > > >That's a fine idea. > > > >It's generally better to have a person rather > >than an exploder as a maintainer. > > > >It's also fine to have an exploder listed too. [] > In the past, mails were sent to Dialog e-mail addresses that were no > longer valid and so the notifications were missed. To rectify this, > we were hoping to avoid personalised e-mail addresses in the > MAINTAINERS file (and at the same time avoid putting individual > entries for all our drivers).
It's possible for all of the email addresses that an exploder delivers to be out-of-date too.
> We will still add our personal e-mails to individual files, but we were > hoping that by adding the support.opensource address to just the > MAINTAINERS file, this would allow us to catch developer changes at > our side.
As I said, exploder email addresses are fine, there's no requirement to have a bunch of different SECTIONS.
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