On Tue, 18 Jul 2023 20:55:37 +0100 Mark Brown wrote:

quoted

+Maintainers must be human, however, it is not acceptable to add a mailing
+list or a group email as a maintainer. Trust and understanding are the
+foundation of kernel maintenance and one cannot build trust with a mailing
+list.  

If you're revising this I'd add a note about the L: tag in MAINTAINERS
here, or possibly just adding a list in addition to humans.  It is
sensible and often helpful for companies to want to get mail copied to a
wider distribution list internally but they're not really what we mean
by list since external people typically can't join them.

👍️ Added: "Having a mailing list *in addition* to humans is perfectly
fine."