Hi Tom,
On Thu, 6 Mar 2014 06:55:46 -0500, Tom Rini trini@ti.com wrote:
On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 11:10:56AM +0100, Albert ARIBAUD wrote:
Hi Masahiro,
On Thu, 06 Mar 2014 17:05:24 +0900, Masahiro Yamada yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com wrote:
Hello Tom, (dropping dead emails from Cc) (adding Albert to Cc)
When I Cced board maintainers, some of them resulted in bounce mails. I'd say at least 8 addresses (listed as Cc: below) are dead.
After discussing with Detlev, I agreed to just mark them as dead address and keep them. Deleting the e-mail means loosing important information.
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For the blackfin ones where we have Sonic also listed as a maintainer, Sonic are you maintaining them? If so, please update the entries to update or remove the other addresses.
OK. I can do this.
And for all of the other boards, if the maintainer has a bouncing email address I would say that qualifies as moving from Active to Inactive.
You mean, from "Active" to "Orphan"? ( Because the first column is 6 charactors width, "Incactive" corrupts the format and we would have to run tools/reformat.py again.)
Besides, should I move "Orphan" boards to the bottom of boards.cfg?
tools/reformat.py handles column sizing and sorting, precisely to spare the bother to people who use it.
It is not clear to me when we should change the board status from "Active" to "Orphan". (Could you show me the basic guideline, Tom ? or Albert ?) There are many boards without maintainers, which are still "Active".
This is a known, and so far, open, question. Right now, orphan boards are those which were marked so in the former MAINTAINERS file. My personal opinion is that "Active" should mean the board is activelymaintained and any maintainer e-mail address associated with the board is that of an active maintainer, and "Orphan" means the board is not actively maintained any more but still builds, and any address associated with it is that of the last known maintainer(s).
+1 to this definition and yes, oops, I meant Orphan not Inactive.
We should clarify this definition of Active/Orphan in the boards.cfg header text.
Also, maybe we could simply mark dead addresses by suffixing the domain part with ".invalid"? For instance, the "dead" form of my own e-mail address would be albert.u.boot@aribaud.net.invalid? That would make sure that no mail is ever submitted to a correct domain with a bogus recipient.
Amicalement,