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Subject: Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin
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Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Dave Jones wrote:
> 
> >  > out of the 300+ email addresses in the MAINTAINERS file, 15 addresses
> >  > bounced physically. (whether they bounce logically is another question.)
> >
> >  Care to remove the bogus ones from MAINTAINERS
> 
> yeah, was in the process of doing that. Patch against 2.5.3-pre6 attached.
> Altogether 13 addresses are affected. I have only removed the
> hard-bouncing email addresses, names and list names remain (of course).
> 
>         Ingo

Humble suggestion:  Add a date field for "took over maintainence
on/before: yyyy-mm-dd" and a field for "last verified: yyyy-mm-dd" so we
know when we last checked on the existance/etc. of a maintainer.  (And
maybe an "AWAL on/before: yyyy-mm-dd" for those without known working
addresses.)

Thoughts?

Ah, I see Russell King made a similar suggestion...

Eli
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