[PATCH v3 0/3] Update VMware maintainer entries

This series updates a few maintainer entries for VMware-maintained
subsystems and cleans up references to VMware's private mailing lists
to make it clear that they are effectively email-aliases to reach out
to reviewers.

Changes from v1->v3:
- Add Zack as the named maintainer for vmmouse driver
- Use R: to denote email-aliases for VMware reviewers

Regards,
Srivatsa

---

Srivatsa S. Bhat (VMware) (3):
      MAINTAINERS: Update maintainers for paravirt ops and VMware hypervisor interface
      MAINTAINERS: Add Zack as maintainer of vmmouse driver
      MAINTAINERS: Mark VMware mailing list entries as email aliases


 MAINTAINERS |   30 +++++++++++++++++-------------
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

From: Srivatsa S. Bhat (VMware) <redacted>

VMware mailing lists in the MAINTAINERS file are private lists meant
for VMware-internal review/notification for patches to the respective
subsystems. Anyone can post to these addresses, but there is no public
read access like open mailing lists, which makes them more like email
aliases instead (to reach out to reviewers).

So update all the VMware mailing list references in the MAINTAINERS
file to mark them as such, using "R: email-alias@vmware.com".

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat (VMware) <redacted>
Cc: Zack Rusin <redacted>
Cc: Nadav Amit <redacted>
Cc: Vivek Thampi <redacted>
Cc: Vishal Bhakta <redacted>
Cc: Ronak Doshi <redacted>
Cc: pv-drivers@vmware.com
Cc: linux-graphics-maintainer@vmware.com
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org
---

 MAINTAINERS |   22 +++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 21c0e49b80b9..073e00ef9434 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS

@@ -6134,8 +6134,8 @@ T:	git git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm-misc
 F:	drivers/gpu/drm/vboxvideo/
 
 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

@@ -14189,7 +14189,7 @@ F:	include/uapi/linux/ppdev.h
 PARAVIRT_OPS INTERFACE
 M:	Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
 M:	Srivatsa S. Bhat (VMware) <srivatsa@csail.mit.edu>
-M:	"VMware, Inc." <pv-drivers@vmware.com>
+R:	VMware PV-Drivers Reviewers <pv-drivers@vmware.com>
 L:	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
 L:	x86@kernel.org
 S:	Supported

@@ -20032,7 +20032,7 @@ F:	tools/testing/vsock/
 
 VMWARE BALLOON DRIVER
 M:	Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
-M:	"VMware, Inc." <pv-drivers@vmware.com>
+R:	VMware PV-Drivers Reviewers <pv-drivers@vmware.com>
 L:	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 S:	Maintained
 F:	drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c

@@ -20040,7 +20040,7 @@ F:	drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c
 VMWARE HYPERVISOR INTERFACE
 M:	Srivatsa S. Bhat (VMware) <srivatsa@csail.mit.edu>
 M:	Alexey Makhalov <amakhalov@vmware.com>
-M:	"VMware, Inc." <pv-drivers@vmware.com>
+R:	VMware PV-Drivers Reviewers <pv-drivers@vmware.com>
 L:	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
 L:	x86@kernel.org
 S:	Supported

@@ -20050,14 +20050,14 @@ F:	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.c
 
 VMWARE PVRDMA DRIVER
 M:	Adit Ranadive <aditr@vmware.com>
-M:	VMware PV-Drivers <pv-drivers@vmware.com>
+R:	VMware PV-Drivers Reviewers <pv-drivers@vmware.com>
 L:	linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org
 S:	Maintained
 F:	drivers/infiniband/hw/vmw_pvrdma/
 
 VMware PVSCSI driver
 M:	Vishal Bhakta <vbhakta@vmware.com>
-M:	VMware PV-Drivers <pv-drivers@vmware.com>
+R:	VMware PV-Drivers Reviewers <pv-drivers@vmware.com>
 L:	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
 S:	Maintained
 F:	drivers/scsi/vmw_pvscsi.c

@@ -20065,7 +20065,7 @@ F:	drivers/scsi/vmw_pvscsi.h
 
 VMWARE VIRTUAL PTP CLOCK DRIVER
 M:	Vivek Thampi <vithampi@vmware.com>
-M:	"VMware, Inc." <pv-drivers@vmware.com>
+R:	VMware PV-Drivers Reviewers <pv-drivers@vmware.com>
 L:	netdev@vger.kernel.org
 S:	Supported
 F:	drivers/ptp/ptp_vmw.c

@@ -20073,15 +20073,15 @@ F:	drivers/ptp/ptp_vmw.c
 VMWARE VMCI DRIVER
 M:	Jorgen Hansen <jhansen@vmware.com>
 M:	Vishnu Dasa <vdasa@vmware.com>
+R:	VMware PV-Drivers Reviewers <pv-drivers@vmware.com>
 L:	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
-L:	pv-drivers@vmware.com (private)
 S:	Maintained
 F:	drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/
 
 VMWARE VMMOUSE SUBDRIVER
 M:	Zack Rusin <zackr@vmware.com>
-M:	"VMware Graphics" <linux-graphics-maintainer@vmware.com>
-M:	"VMware, Inc." <pv-drivers@vmware.com>
+R:	VMware Graphics Reviewers <linux-graphics-maintainer@vmware.com>
+R:	VMware PV-Drivers Reviewers <pv-drivers@vmware.com>
 L:	linux-input@vger.kernel.org
 S:	Maintained
 F:	drivers/input/mouse/vmmouse.c

@@ -20089,7 +20089,7 @@ F:	drivers/input/mouse/vmmouse.h
 
 VMWARE VMXNET3 ETHERNET DRIVER
 M:	Ronak Doshi <doshir@vmware.com>
-M:	pv-drivers@vmware.com
+R:	VMware PV-Drivers Reviewers <pv-drivers@vmware.com>
 L:	netdev@vger.kernel.org
 S:	Maintained
 F:	drivers/net/vmxnet3/

On Wed, 10 Nov 2021 12:09:06 -0800 Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:

 DRM DRIVER FOR VMWARE VIRTUAL GPU
-M:	"VMware Graphics" [off-list ref]
 M:	Zack Rusin [off-list ref]
+R:	VMware Graphics Reviewers [off-list ref]
 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.

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:

quoted

 DRM DRIVER FOR VMWARE VIRTUAL GPU
-M:	"VMware Graphics" [off-list ref]
 M:	Zack Rusin [off-list ref]
+R:	VMware Graphics Reviewers [off-list ref]
 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.

On 10.11.21 21:09, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:

From: Srivatsa S. Bhat (VMware) <redacted>

VMware mailing lists in the MAINTAINERS file are private lists meant
for VMware-internal review/notification for patches to the respective
subsystems. Anyone can post to these addresses, but there is no public
read access like open mailing lists, which makes them more like email
aliases instead (to reach out to reviewers).

So update all the VMware mailing list references in the MAINTAINERS
file to mark them as such, using "R: email-alias@vmware.com".

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat (VMware) <redacted>

Acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>


Juergen