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From: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, akpm <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: mark framebuffer as Orphan
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 21:37:50 +0000 (GMT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702212136360.20620@pentafluge.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070216122403.GM13958@stusta.de>


> > > 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 			it has been replaced by a better system and you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.

At this point I would say maintained. Plus Tony is coming back :-)
Its just recently I have been working on various other things like the 
display class.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-02-21 21:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-15 21:25 Randy Dunlap
2007-02-15 22:26 ` James Simmons
2007-02-15 23:05   ` Randy Dunlap
2007-02-16 12:24     ` Adrian Bunk
2007-02-20  5:17       ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Antonino A. Daplas
2007-02-21 21:39         ` James Simmons
2007-02-21 21:37       ` James Simmons [this message]
2007-02-21 21:36         ` Randy Dunlap
2007-02-15 23:27 ` Andrew Morton

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