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From:   Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 18 Oct 2019 11:35:36 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: mtd/ubi/ubifs: Remove inactive maintainers
To:     Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
Cc:     linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
        Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
        Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>,
        Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
        Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
        Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@ti.com>,
        Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@microchip.com>
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On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 7:22 AM Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com> w=
rote:
>
> Despite their substantial personal investment in the MTD/UBI/UBIFS a
> few years back, David, Brian, Artem and Adrian are not actively
> maintaining the subsystem anymore. We warmly salute them for all the
> work they have achieved and will of course still welcome their
> participation and reviews.
>
> That said, Marek retired himself a few weeks ago quoting Harald [1]:
>
>         It matters who has which title and when. Should somebody not
>         be an active maintainer, make sure he's not listed as such.
>
> For this same reason, let=E2=80=99s trim the maintainers list with the
> actually active ones over the past two years.
>
> [1] http://laforge.gnumonks.org/blog/20180307-mchardy-gpl/
>
> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
> Cc: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
> Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
> Cc: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>
> Cc: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
> Cc: Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@ti.com>
> Cc: Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@microchip.com>
> Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>

I've been meaning to do this for a while, so thanks.

Acked-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>