Thread (9 messages) 9 messages, 5 authors, 2007-02-21

Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: mark framebuffer as Orphan

From: James Simmons <hidden>
Date: 2007-02-21 21:38:09
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Alot of patches have been flowing into the layer.
So would you like to leave it as Maintained or change it to
"Odd Fixes"?  (Maintained => a maintainer)  From the MAINTAINTERS file:

	Supported:	Someone is actually paid to look after this.
	Maintained:	Someone actually looks after it.
	Odd Fixes:	It has a maintainer but they don't have time to do
			much other than throw the odd patch in. See below..
	Orphan:		No current maintainer [but maybe you could take the
			role as you write your new code].
	Obsolete:	Old code. Something tagged obsolete generally means
			it has been replaced by a better system and you
			should be using that.
...
If you start doing this, there are a lot more entries that need to be 
changed...

Which of Supported/Maintained/"Odd Fixes" is written doesn't matter in 
practice.

What matters is that James' email address gets into the entry so that 
patches and bug reports reach him.

James' work is definitely no below the average of entries marked as 
Maintained.
At this point I would say maintained. Plus Tony is coming back :-)
Its just recently I have been working on various other things like the 
display class.

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