[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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