linux-kernel - Re: What to do on MIA maintainers?

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Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2024 21:03:42 +0700
From: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Networking <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: What to do on MIA maintainers?

On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 09:40:55AM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jan 2024 17:58:01 +0700 Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> > Earlier in late last December, I sent a patch removing Karsten Keil
> > <isdn@...ux-pingi.de> from MAINTAINERS due to inactivity [1], but Greg was
> > unsure about that [2]. So I privately tried to reach Karsten (asking for
> > confirmation), but until now he is still not responding to my outreach, hence
> > IMO he is MIA.
> > 
> > What to do on this situation? Should he be removed from MAINTAINERS?
> 
> Well. I'm not sure you should do anything about it.. In an ideal world
> with properly set up maintainer structure it should be up to the next
> level maintainer to decide when to do the cleanups. Random people
> initiating that sort of work can backfire in too many ways. IDK what
> a good analogy would be here, but you wouldn't for example come up
> to an employee in a store, when you think they aren't doing anything,
> and tell them to go stock shelves.
> 
> If there are patches on the list that needs reviewing and the person
> is not reviewing them, or questions being asked / regressions being
> reported and they go unanswered - the upper level maintainer can act.
> But trust me, it's impossible for someone who is not an upper
> maintainer to judge the situation.

OK, thanks!

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