Re: [PATCH 1/2] MAINTAINERS: Update Martyn Welch's address

[Bagas Sanjaya]

On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 11:15:19AM +0000, Martyn Welch wrote:
> 
> On 22/11/2023 09:41, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> > He is now active on the mailing lists using his Collabora  >
> > (@collabora.com) address. Reflect it in MAINTAINERS and also add >
> address mapping for him.
> Hmm, mapping yes, changing the email assigned to the VME stuff, no. This is
> not something that I consider related to my work at Collabora. Any time
> spent on it at this point will be personal time, hence the use of my
> non-work email address.
> 
> Realistically, I've lost access to hardware to test anything regarding VME
> and it's not something that's particularly easy to acquire. With the other
> patch in this series removing Manohar, removing me as a maintainer would
> leave Greg, who has been amazing covering my shoddy maintenance of this
> subsystem (what can I say, life has rather got in the way), but I feel it's
> unfair to leave him as the sole maintainer. I wonder whether I/we should
> admit this is basically orphaned at this point?

I also feel similar thing when basically the subsystem gets more care from
kernel janitors (including outreachy applicants and people specializing
in checkpatch fixes) than real users, like the case of DECNET [1]. So
I'm agree to orphan VME.

Thanks.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220818004357.375695-1-stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

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