Message-ID: <d7f3fec79287a149d6edc828583a771c84646b42.camel@perches.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] MAINTAINERS: Mark VMware mailing list entries as
 email aliases
From:   Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
        "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa@csail.mit.edu>
Cc:     jgross@suse.com, x86@kernel.org, pv-drivers@vmware.com,
        Zack Rusin <zackr@vmware.com>, Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>,
        Vivek Thampi <vithampi@vmware.com>,
        Vishal Bhakta <vbhakta@vmware.com>,
        Ronak Doshi <doshir@vmware.com>,
        linux-graphics-maintainer@vmware.com,
        dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-input@vger.kernel.org, amakhalov@vmware.com,
        sdeep@vmware.com, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
        keerthanak@vmware.com, srivatsab@vmware.com, anishs@vmware.com,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rostedt@goodmis.org
Date:   Wed, 10 Nov 2021 21:19:53 -0800
In-Reply-To: <20211110173935.45a9f495@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com>
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On Wed, 2021-11-10 at 17:39 -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Nov 2021 12:09:06 -0800 Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:
> >  DRM DRIVER FOR VMWARE VIRTUAL GPU
> > -M:	"VMware Graphics" <linux-graphics-maintainer@vmware.com>
> >  M:	Zack Rusin <zackr@vmware.com>
> > +R:	VMware Graphics Reviewers <linux-graphics-maintainer@vmware.com>
> >  L:	dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
> >  S:	Supported
> >  T:	git git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm-misc
> 
> It'd be preferable for these corporate entries to be marked or
> otherwise distinguishable so that we can ignore them when we try 
> to purge MAINTAINERS from developers who stopped participating.
> 
> These addresses will never show up in a commit tag which is normally
> sign of inactivity.

Funny.

The link below is from over 5 years ago.

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1472081625.3746.217.camel@perches.com/

Almost all of those entries are still in MAINTAINERS.

I think the concept of purging is a non-issue.