Peter Maydell <[email protected]> writes: > I just did some analysis of our MAINTAINERS file with the aid of a > local copy of the public-inbox archive of qemu-devel, and (unless my > scripting is broken ;-)) of the 258 emails listed in MAINTAINERS, > 50 have not sent an email to qemu-devel in the last three years. > > Some of that will be things like "the address somebody uses to send > to the list is not quite the same as the one they have listed", so > it will need some manual checking, but I think this shows we could > use a bit of spring-cleaning of the file to remove stale entries. > > I propose to send some (not cc'd the list) emails to these people, > asking (politely!) if they're still interested in being in the > MAINTAINERS file, and treating "email bounces", "no" and "no reply > within a month" as "I'm no longer interested in being cc'd on patches". > Then we can update the file accordingly. > > (This was prompted by a series I sent out earlier today getting > a load of "address unknown" bounce-mails from a corporate server; > that's not a particularly rare thing to happen IME. And I also > have developed a habit of manually curating cc lists to drop > people I suspect of not actually being involved any more...)
Yes, please! We talked about the issue of stale MAINTAINERS entries before, mostly when e-mail bounces get sufficiently annoying for somebody to submit or ask for a MAINTAINERS correction, but as far as I know it always stopped at talk. Ignored e-mail is arguably worse than bouncing e-mail. 50 entries out of 258 is a lot. If the cleaning you propose works, we should consider repeating it regularly, to avoid backsliding. Annually?
