linux-kernel - Re: [XFS] Update maintainers

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Message-ID: <20090119111515.40d3d6c6@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date:	Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:15:15 +0000
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	"Bill O'Donnell" <billodo@....com>,
	Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@....com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [XFS] Update maintainers

On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 14:21:49 -0800
Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 16:06 -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > In either way listing a company as maintainer is wrong.  Maintainers
> > are invidual persons or teams thereof and not companies.
> 
> I believe:
> 
> It's better to have individuals listed
> Front-end company/org addresses should be OK
> Names without email addresses should not be OK

Agreed entirely - people move between companies. In many cases we've had
tons of stuff to maintainers simply go missing because people left,
Having it go to internal groups makes a lot more sense if that is what
people want.

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