From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751476AbXBPMX6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Feb 2007 07:23:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751497AbXBPMX6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Feb 2007 07:23:58 -0500 Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:59074 "EHLO mailhub.stusta.mhn.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751476AbXBPMX5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Feb 2007 07:23:57 -0500 Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 13:24:03 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk To: Randy Dunlap Cc: James Simmons , lkml , akpm , linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: mark framebuffer as Orphan Message-ID: <20070216122403.GM13958@stusta.de> References: <20070215132549.c182f7bf.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <20070215150526.1fd63b3e.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070215150526.1fd63b3e.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 03:05:26PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 22:26:10 +0000 (GMT) James Simmons wrote: > > > > > I wouldn't say it orphan. I just can't spend 8 hours a day on it. > > Alot of patches have been flowing into the layer. > > So would you like to leave it as Maintained or change it to > "Odd Fixes"? (Maintained => a maintainer) From the MAINTAINTERS file: > > Supported: Someone is actually paid to look after this. > Maintained: Someone actually looks after it. > Odd Fixes: It has a maintainer but they don't have time to do > much other than throw the odd patch in. See below.. > Orphan: No current maintainer [but maybe you could take the > role as you write your new code]. > Obsolete: Old code. Something tagged obsolete generally means > it has been replaced by a better system and you > should be using that. >... If you start doing this, there are a lot more entries that need to be changed... Which of Supported/Maintained/"Odd Fixes" is written doesn't matter in practice. What matters is that James' email address gets into the entry so that patches and bug reports reach him. James' work is definitely no below the average of entries marked as Maintained. > ~Randy cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed