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:

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 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/ (local)

Almost all of those entries are still in MAINTAINERS.

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