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Date:   Tue, 09 Nov 2021 13:57:31 -0800
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Nadav Amit <namit@...are.com>
Cc:     "srivatsa@...il.mit.edu" <srivatsa@...il.mit.edu>,
        Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
        Pv-drivers <Pv-drivers@...are.com>,
        Vivek Thampi <vithampi@...are.com>,
        Vishal Bhakta <vbhakta@...are.com>,
        Ronak Doshi <doshir@...are.com>,
        Linux-graphics-maintainer <Linux-graphics-maintainer@...are.com>,
        "dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org" <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        "linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org" <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-input@...r.kernel.org" <linux-input@...r.kernel.org>,
        Zack Rusin <zackr@...are.com>, Deep Shah <sdeep@...are.com>,
        Alexey Makhalov <amakhalov@...are.com>,
        Linux Virtualization <virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
        Keerthana Kalyanasundaram <keerthanak@...are.com>,
        Srivatsa Bhat <srivatsab@...are.com>,
        Anish Swaminathan <anishs@...are.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] MAINTAINERS: Mark VMware mailing list entries as
 private

On Tue, 2021-11-09 at 00:58 +0000, Nadav Amit wrote:
> > On Nov 8, 2021, at 4:37 PM, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2021-11-08 at 16:22 -0800, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:
> > 
> > So it's an exploder not an actual maintainer and it likely isn't
> > publically archived with any normal list mechanism.
> > 
> > So IMO "private" isn't appropriate.  Neither is "L:"
> > Perhaps just mark it as what it is as an "exploder".
> > 
> > Or maybe these blocks should be similar to:
> > 
> > M:	Name of Lead Developer <somebody@...are.com>
> > M:	VMware <foo> maintainers <linux-<foo>-maintainers@...inux.com>

Maybe adding entries like

M:	Named maintainer <whoever@...are.com>
R:	VMware <foo> reviewers <linux-<foo>-maintainers@...are.com>

would be best/simplest.