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

[Tom Rini]

On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 11:10:56AM +0100, Albert ARIBAUD wrote:
> Hi Masahiro,
> 
> On Thu, 06 Mar 2014 17:05:24 +0900, Masahiro Yamada
> <yamada.m at jp.panasonic.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> tools/reformat.py handles column sizing and sorting, precisely to spare
> the bother to people who use it.
> 
> > 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".
> 
> This is a known, and so far, open, question. Right now, orphan boards
> are those which were marked so in the former MAINTAINERS file. My
> personal opinion is that "Active" should mean the board is
> activelymaintained and any maintainer e-mail address associated
> with the board is that of an active maintainer, and "Orphan" means the
> board is not actively maintained any more but still builds, and any
> address associated with it is that of the last known maintainer(s).

+1 to this definition and yes, oops, I meant Orphan not Inactive.

-- 
Tom
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