On Wed, 10 Nov 2021 21:19:53 -0800 Joe Perches wrote:
> On Wed, 2021-11-10 at 17:39 -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > On Wed, 10 Nov 2021 12:09:06 -0800 Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:  
> > >  DRM DRIVER FOR VMWARE VIRTUAL GPU
> > > -M:       "VMware Graphics" <linux-graphics-maintai...@vmware.com>
> > >  M:       Zack Rusin <za...@vmware.com>
> > > +R:       VMware Graphics Reviewers <linux-graphics-maintai...@vmware.com>
> > >  L:       dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
> > >  S:       Supported
> > >  T:       git git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm-misc  
> > 
> > It'd be preferable for these corporate entries to be marked or
> > otherwise distinguishable so that we can ignore them when we try 
> > to purge MAINTAINERS from developers who stopped participating.
> > 
> > These addresses will never show up in a commit tag which is normally
> > sign of inactivity.  
> 
> Funny.
> 
> The link below is from over 5 years ago.
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1472081625.3746.217.ca...@perches.com/
> 
> Almost all of those entries are still in MAINTAINERS.
> 
> I think the concept of purging is a non-issue.

I cleaned networking in January and intend to do it again in 2 months.
See:

054c4610bd05 MAINTAINERS: dccp: move Gerrit Renker to CREDITS
4f3786e01194 MAINTAINERS: ipvs: move Wensong Zhang to CREDITS
0e4ed0b62b5a MAINTAINERS: tls: move Aviad to CREDITS
c41efbf2ad56 MAINTAINERS: ena: remove Zorik Machulsky from reviewers
5e62d124f75a MAINTAINERS: vrf: move Shrijeet to CREDITS
09cd3f4683a9 MAINTAINERS: net: move Alexey Kuznetsov to CREDITS
93089de91e85 MAINTAINERS: altx: move Jay Cliburn to CREDITS
8b0f64b113d6 MAINTAINERS: remove names from mailing list maintainers

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