[U-Boot] [PATCH v2] boards.cfg: move boards with invalid emails to Orphan
Albert ARIBAUD
albert.u.boot at aribaud.net
Tue Mar 11 12:00:20 CET 2014
Hi Masahiro,
On Tue, 11 Mar 2014 12:19:12 +0900, Masahiro Yamada
<yamada.m at jp.panasonic.com> wrote:
> When I cc board maintainers, some of them result in
> bounce mails.
>
> It turned out the following do not work any more:
> Yuli Barcohen <yuli at arabellasw.com>
> Travis Sawyer <travis.sawyer at sandburst.com>
> Yusdi Santoso <yusdi_santoso at adaptec.com>
> David Updegraff <dave at cray.com>
> Sangmoon Kim <dogoil at etinsys.com>
> Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov at ru.mvista.com>
> Blackfin Team <u-boot-devel at blackfin.uclinux.org>
> Bluetechnix Tinyboards <bluetechnix at blackfin.uclinux.org>
> Andre Schwarz <andre.schwarz at matrix-vision.de>
>
> For the blackfin boards where Sonic Zhang is also listed
> as a maintainer, dead addresses should be simply dropped.
>
> For all of the others, the status should be changed to "Orphan".
>
> We have adopted the definition of "Orphan" as:
> board is not actively maintained any more but still builds, and any
> address associated with it is that of the last known maintainer(s)
>
> Even though the emails do not work any more, they carry information.
> We want to keep them.
>
> Besides, Orphan boards have been collected at the bottom of boards.cfg.
> (This is done when we run "tools/reformat.py")
>
> Add separators to distinguish them from those which
> were moved to Orphan 6 months ago.
> I believe it will be helpful in future to find which boards are
> old enough to be removed from the code base.
Agreed up to and including the above. However, it seems you have not
applied tools/reformat.py as requested in the file header: after
I have applied your patch, running reformat.py led to some lines being
reorganized in boards.cfg.
Can you fix, check, and send V2?
Amicalement,
--
Albert.
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