Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] MAINTAINERS: Record old email addresses

Sam James <[email protected]> Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:23:23 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gcc.patches
Organization Gentoo
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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Claudio Bantaloukas via Sourceware Forge <[email protected]> writes:

> From: Claudio Bantaloukas <[email protected]>
>
> Record likely inactive email addresses for existing contributors.  These
> addresses were collected from the author and committer fields in the Git
> history, as well as from entries removed from earlier versions of the
> MAINTAINERS file.  Addresses already listed as active are excluded.
> These addresses are not printed on the MAINTAINERS file, they serve as an
> archive to help match past contributions, specifically for users that have an
> account on sourceware forge.
>
> This is an initial version of the patch to gather input. Data used with
> explicit permission.
>

I think we want to do .mailmap too.

> ChangeLog:
> 	* MAINTAINERS.yml: Add inactive_email entries.
> 	* contrib/maintainer_utils.py: Add inactive_email property.
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS.yml             | 3 +++
>  contrib/maintainer_utils.py | 7 +++++++
>  2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS.yml b/MAINTAINERS.yml
> index fc38ecafd1acd..a3bf674668d71 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS.yml
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS.yml
> @@ -1224,6 +1224,9 @@ users:
>    - Maintainer: arm port
>    - WriteAfter
>    account: rearnsha
> +  inactive_email:
> +  - [email protected]
> +  - [email protected]
>  - sn: Eckhardt
>    cn: Jason Eckhardt
>    email:
> diff --git a/contrib/maintainer_utils.py b/contrib/maintainer_utils.py
> index 9fc636d8b5623..878439eb365fd 100755
> --- a/contrib/maintainer_utils.py
> +++ b/contrib/maintainer_utils.py
> @@ -60,6 +60,13 @@ maintainer_schema = {
>                              'format': 'email',
>                          },
>                      },
> +                    'inactive_email': {
> +                        'type': 'array',
> +                        'items': {
> +                            'type': 'string',
> +                            'format': 'email',
> +                        },
> +                    },
>                      'roles': {
>                          'type': 'array',
>                          'items': {

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