Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] MAINTAINERS: Mark VMware mailing list entries as email aliases

On Fri, 2021-11-12 at 09:44 -0800, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:

On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 05:55:54AM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:

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On Wed, 10 Nov 2021 21:19:53 -0800 Joe Perches wrote:

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On Wed, 2021-11-10 at 17:39 -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:

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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.

I cleaned networking in January and intend to do it again in 2 months.
See:

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8b0f64b113d6 MAINTAINERS: remove names from mailing list maintainers

I think the last removal of descriptive naming from exploder style
reviewers or mailing lists is misguided/not good.

I suggest this change be reverted.

I'm assuming the purging is not totally automated, is it? As long as
the entries are informative to a human reader, it should be possible
to skip the relevant ones when purging inactive entries.

true

I believe this patch makes the situation better than it is currently
(at least for the human reader), by marking lists without public
read-access in a format that is more appropriate. In the future, we
could perhaps improve on it to ease automation too, but for now I
think it is worthwhile to merge this change (unless there are strong
objections or better alternatives that everyone agrees on).

I think this VMware suggested patch to MAINTAINERS is good and
improves readers ability to know how any suggested patch is going
to be reviewed by a company..