Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Remove Matt Mackall as his identity is obsolete

Uwe Kleine-König <[email protected]> Thu, 23 Sep 2021 20:51:34 +0200

Newsgroups	org.kernel.vger.linux-embedded,org.kernel.vger.linux-crypto,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hello,

On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 03:01:25PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 11:52 AM Uwe Kleine-König
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The mails I sent to Matt on September 14 and 20 both were refused by the
> > MTA responsible for selenic.com (i.e. waste.org) with:
> >
> >         554 5.7.1 <[email protected]>: Recipient address rejected: This identity is obsolete
> >
> > Also the most recent commit that involved him (ignoring "Cc: Matt
> > Mackall <[email protected]>" footers) is commit 330e0a01d54c (MAINTAINERS:
> > Theodore Ts'o is taking over the random driver) where he was removed
> > from the entry for random number drivers in 2012.
> >
> > So drop him completely from the list of maintainers.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >  MAINTAINERS | 2 --
> >  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > index d7b4f32875a9..805630c67a1f 100644
> > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > @@ -6812,7 +6812,6 @@ F:        drivers/media/usb/em28xx/
> >
> >  EMBEDDED LINUX
> >  M:     Paul Gortmaker <[email protected]>
> > -M:     Matt Mackall <[email protected]>
> 
> Perhaps this should be replaced by
> "Olivia Mackall <[email protected]>" instead?

I think we need some feedback from Olivia here? At least I don't know
more than I wrote in the commit log and so I'm not in a position to
decide anything here.

Best regards
Uwe

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