Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 May 2015 08:38:43 -0700 | From | Laura Abbott <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Moving unseen/inactive MAINTAINER M: names and email addresses to CREDITS |
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On 05/28/2015 12:59 PM, Joe Perches wrote: > On Wed, 2015-05-27 at 14:06 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: >> On Wed, 27 May 2015 14:01:44 -0700 Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote: >>> There are about 950 unique M: names in MAINTAINERS. >>> >>> About 200 of those names haven't signed or authored a >>> single commit in 3+ years. >>> >>> Any desire to shorten the MAINTAINERS entries and orphan >>> or delete those sections that that seem to have a single >>> apparently inactive maintainer? >>> >>> Maybe 25 of those M: entries are actually email exploder >>> type uses that should likely stay listed. >> >> Yes, I suppose we should clean this up. At present we're misleading >> people about the likely outcome of their emails. And we're misleading >> people (like me) who see the email and think "ok, someone's taking care >> of that". > > This is the list of maintainer names/sections that seem > not to have signed, authored or acked a commit in 3 years. > > After some editing and additional grepping, I got 133 entries. > > The grep patterns I used are imperfect. > > For instance, the MAINTAINERS file has "Hideaki Yoshifuji" but > he doesn't ever sign anything that way. His signature is > "Yoshifuji Hideaki". > > If anyone sees any obvious false-positives, please let me know. > > I'll send a private email to all these people and see if they > want to be listed in the MAINTAINERS file and see what happens. > > Here is the list two ways, alphabetic by name and by section > > By Name: >
> Riley Andrews <riandrews@android.com> ANDROID DRIVERS
I just saw patches from Riley this morning for the binder driver. Riley took over as the binder maintainer when it moved out of staging earlier this year.
Thanks, Laura
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