Re: [APPROVED][PATCH v1 0/1] [RFC] MAINTAINERS: Record old email addresses

On 07/08/2026 16:13, Tobias Burnus wrote:
> Richard Earnshaw via Sourceware Forge wrote:
>> Richard Earnshaw (rearnsha) <[email protected]> approved the changes:
>> This seems reasonable to me - it's simply reformatting information 
>> already stored in the GCC repository.
>> OK, but please give it until Tuesday in case there are any last minute 
>> objections.
> 
> I think it is by itself a good idea – but I am not sure "inactive_email" 
> is the right word. There is:
> 
> * Non-primary email addresses - like in my case, my private email.
>    Still valid and with FSF assignment, but my work email is my
>    primary one.
> * Old email addresses due to company-name changes - still valid but
>    not used for new new emails. (I have one of those too.)
> * Old email addresses - not valid any more, usually because of
>    changing companies.
> 
> I think inactive is fine for all of those, but we could also have
> a non_primary one - esp. for some things, I might still use my
> private email – which is would be more a non_primary_email than
> inactive_email.
> 
In addition to what Richard and Jakub said, I will soon post a bigger 
patch with all the emails scraped.
There is no reasonable way to validate that each and every email out of 
the more than 600 that I found for people in MAINTAINERS is active or not.
So the best I can do is add the emails as inactive and let interested 
parties make changes as they see fit.

HTH
Claudio

> Tobias
>