Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] MAINTAINERS: Mark VMware mailing list entries as email aliases

[Joe Perches]

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-maintainer@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >  M:	Zack Rusin <zackr@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > +R:	VMware Graphics Reviewers <linux-graphics-maintainer@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >  L:	dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >  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.camel@xxxxxxxxxxx/

Almost all of those entries are still in MAINTAINERS.

I think the concept of purging is a non-issue.