netdev - Re: [PATCH net 6/9] MAINTAINERS: mtk-eth: remove Felix

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Message-ID: <20210111094137.0ead3481@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com>
Date:   Mon, 11 Jan 2021 09:41:37 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, corbet@....net,
        Felix Fietkau <nbd@....name>, John Crispin <john@...ozen.org>,
        Sean Wang <sean.wang@...iatek.com>,
        Mark Lee <Mark-MC.Lee@...iatek.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 6/9] MAINTAINERS: mtk-eth: remove Felix

On Sun, 10 Jan 2021 21:45:46 -0800 Joe Perches wrote:
> On Sun, 2021-01-10 at 21:27 -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > Drop Felix from Mediatek Ethernet driver maintainers.
> > We haven't seen any tags since the initial submission.  
> []
> > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS  
> []
> > @@ -11165,7 +11165,6 @@ F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/mtk-*
> >  F:	drivers/dma/mediatek/
> >  
> > 
> >  MEDIATEK ETHERNET DRIVER
> > -M:	Felix Fietkau <nbd@....name>
> >  M:	John Crispin <john@...ozen.org>
> >  M:	Sean Wang <sean.wang@...iatek.com>
> >  M:	Mark Lee <Mark-MC.Lee@...iatek.com>  
> 
> I think your script is broken as there are multiple subdirectories
> for this entry and 

Quite the opposite, the script intentionally only counts contributions
only to the code under the MAINTAINERS entry. People lose interest and
move on to working on other parts of the kernel (or maybe were never
that interested in maintaining something in the first place?). 

We want to list folks who are likely to give us reviews.

> Felix is active.

Which I tried to state in the commit message as well :)