[U-Boot] [PATCH] cosmetic: boards.cfg: mark dead email addresses

Masahiro Yamada yamada.m at jp.panasonic.com
Thu Mar 6 09:05:24 CET 2014


Hello Tom,
(dropping dead emails from Cc)
(adding Albert to Cc)

> > When I Cced board maintainers, some of them resulted
> > in bounce mails.
> > I'd say at least 8 addresses (listed as Cc: below)
> > are dead.
> > 
> > After discussing with Detlev, I agreed to just mark
> > them as dead address and keep them.
> > Deleting the e-mail means loosing important information.
> > 
[snip]
> For the blackfin ones where we have Sonic also listed as a maintainer,
> Sonic are you maintaining them?  If so, please update the entries to
> update or remove the other addresses. 

OK. I can do this.

> And for all of the other boards,
> if the maintainer has a bouncing email address I would say that
> qualifies as moving from Active to Inactive.

You mean, from "Active" to "Orphan"?
( Because the first column is 6 charactors width,
"Incactive" corrupts the format and we would have to run
tools/reformat.py again.)


Besides, should I move "Orphan" boards to the bottom of boards.cfg?

It is not clear to me when we should change the board status
from "Active" to "Orphan". 
(Could you show me the basic guideline, Tom ? or Albert ?)
There are many boards without maintainers, which are still "Active".


Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada



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