linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Update email address for Joel Fernandes

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite for Android: free password hash cracker in your pocket

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20260107123159.7ac61d69@gandalf.local.home>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2026 12:31:59 -0500
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@...dia.com>
Cc: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>, Joel Fernandes
 <joel@...lfernandes.org>, John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, rcu@...r.kernel.org, rust-for-linux
 <rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org>, nouveau@...ts.freedesktop.org, Boqun Feng
 <boqun.feng@...il.com>, Paul E McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org>, Jason
 Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>, rostedt@...gle.com, Yury Norov
 <yury.norov@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Update email address for Joel Fernandes

On Wed, 7 Jan 2026 12:20:42 -0500
Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@...dia.com> wrote:

> Thank you for the suggestion! Unfortunately, that would hide the company
> attribution too. Or require it to be in brackets along with the name. There
> appears to be resistance to both these. I do feel fortunate to get company time
> to work upstream, so, on this matter, I have to go with the company's
> preferences.;-). There also appears to be significant progress now to resolve
> the email issues which looks promising (thanks Jason, John and everyone for the
> efforts!).

The one issue I have with people using (or being forced to use) their work
email address is that people switch companies all the time. I find it very
annoying when Cc's suddenly get bounced because it is going to the old
company email address. Worse yet when the developer is still involved with
the upstream community and now they are simply not getting email that they
should be.

This is why I prefer the "(company)" in the email name and not the address.
It allows developers to maintain the same email while they move companies.
I did this for Red Hat, VMware and now Google, and all with the same email
address.

Although I may need to switch to my kernel.org address because my
goodmis.org is being blocked by gmail :-p

> 
> Happy New Year! Thanks,

Happy New Year to you Joel!

-- Steve