linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] Moving unseen/inactive MAINTAINER M: names and email addresses to CREDITS

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Date:	Wed, 27 May 2015 14:06:35 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Moving unseen/inactive MAINTAINER M: names and email
 addresses to CREDITS

On Wed, 27 May 2015 14:01:44 -0700 Joe Perches <joe@...ches.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".
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