Re: [RFC V1] MAINTAINERS: Addition of Dialog Semiconductor files

From: Joe Perches
Date: Sat Mar 08 2014 - 11:39:50 EST


On Sat, 2014-03-08 at 10:45 +0000, Opensource [Steve Twiss] wrote:
> On 07 March 2014 16:25 Joe Perches wrote:
>
> >> Dialog Semiconductor would like to add a new section called DIALOG
> >> SEMICONDUCTOR DRIVERS which contains the new support mailing list
> >> <support.opensource@xxxxxxxxxxx> for Dialog supported drivers.
> >
> >That's a fine idea.
> >
> >It's generally better to have a person rather
> >than an exploder as a maintainer.
> >
> >It's also fine to have an exploder listed too.
[]
> In the past, mails were sent to Dialog e-mail addresses that were no
> longer valid and so the notifications were missed. To rectify this,
> we were hoping to avoid personalised e-mail addresses in the
> MAINTAINERS file (and at the same time avoid putting individual
> entries for all our drivers).

It's possible for all of the email addresses that an
exploder delivers to be out-of-date too.

> We will still add our personal e-mails to individual files, but we were
> hoping that by adding the support.opensource address to just the
> MAINTAINERS file, this would allow us to catch developer changes at
> our side.

As I said, exploder email addresses are fine, there's no
requirement to have a bunch of different SECTIONS.


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