Richard Earnshaw (foss) wrote:
The main email: entry is a list of valid email addresses that you have; the first is considered to be your primary email. This is intended for 'dead' email addresses that will no-longer reach you (eg because you've changed employer, or ISP).
Makes sense.
However, a IMHO very useful follow-up patch would be to add a comment block on top of MAINTAINERS.yml that (a) lists all fields - and (b) actually documents what they are fore and, as applicable, which special values are valid.
Currently, one might just pick a previous item and modify it and, possibly, additionally read through contrib/maintainer_utils.py and through some emails. For instance, it is unlikely to find 'inactive_email' - unless by chance, given that there only a single user that uses it (once this patch lands).
Tobias
