netdev - Re: [PATCH net 1/2] MAINTAINERS: Remove Karsten Keil

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Message-ID: <2023122116-favoring-roulette-554f@gregkh>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2023 11:54:02 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Networking <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Janitors <kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"Jiri Slaby (SUSE)" <jirislaby@...nel.org>,
	Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>,
	Kunwu Chan <chentao@...inos.cn>,
	Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>,
	Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
	"Steven Rostedt (Google)" <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Karsten Keil <isdn@...ux-pingi.de>,
	Karsten Keil <keil@...systems.de>,
	YouHong Li <liyouhong@...inos.cn>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/2] MAINTAINERS: Remove Karsten Keil

On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 05:49:54PM +0700, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 10:32:09AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 04:14:18PM +0700, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> > > He's no longer active maintaining ISDN/mISDN subsystem: his last message
> > > on kernel mailing lists was three years ago [1] and last commit activity
> > > from him was 1e1589ad8b5cb5 ("mISDN: Support DR6 indication in mISDNipac
> > > driver") in 2016 when he gave Acked-by: from his @b1-systems.de address.
> > > 
> > > Move him to CREDITS, as netdev people should already handle ISDN/mISDN
> > > patches.
> > > 
> > > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/0ee243a9-9937-ad26-0684-44b18e772662@linux-pingi.de/ [1]
> > > Cc: Karsten Keil <isdn@...ux-pingi.de>
> > > Cc: Karsten Keil <keil@...systems.de>
> > > Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>
> > 
> > Are you sure he's not active?  It doesn't take much work to keep an old
> > subsystem like this alive, last I remember, real changes were accepted
> > just fine.
> 
> As for LKML messages, yes; he doesn't post any new messages since 2020.
> 
> > 
> > Perhaps just don't send coding style cleanups to old subsystems?  :)
> > 
> > I would not take these unless Karsten agrees that he no longer wants to
> > maintain this.
> 
> OK, I will send a private message to him asking for continuing maintainer
> role. If there's no response from him by the new year, then it's safe to
> route this through net tree instead (hence [PATCH net]).

Why are you arbritrarily saying that "no response in 2 weeks, during the
time of the year almost all of Europe is on vacation, means we drop
someone from the MAINTAINERS file"?

Please slow down, relax, and don't do this.

greg k-h