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

Richard Earnshaw (foss) wrote:
> The main email: entry is a list of valid email addresses that you have; the first is considered to be your primary email. This is intended for 'dead' email addresses that will no-longer reach you (eg because you've changed employer, or ISP).
Makes sense.

However, a IMHO very useful follow-up patch would be to add a comment 
block on top of MAINTAINERS.yml that (a) lists all fields - and (b) 
actually documents what they are fore and, as applicable, which special 
values are valid.

Currently, one might just pick a previous item and modify it and, 
possibly, additionally read through contrib/maintainer_utils.py and 
through some emails. For instance, it is unlikely to find 
'inactive_email' - unless by chance, given that there only a single user 
that uses it (once this patch lands).

Tobias