Re: [PATCH] module_author: don't advice putting in an emailaddress

[John Anthony Kazos Jr.]

> > The email address is the problem I was trying to fix; with multiple current 
> > and non-current authors and maintainers who might not even be authors the 
> > address(es) available from the tag confuse the issue of whom to contact. 
> > It's moreover also information that easily outdated.
> > 
> > A bit more than half of the tags in the tree don't include an email address 
> > already and I'll submit patches removing more...
> 
> Please don't do this
> 
> NACK this change.
> 
> Whether someone puts their email address into the entry is their own
> business. We do not need a style police for module author entries.
> 
> At most you might want to put
> 
> 	"If you include an email address then please use an address that
> 	 you expect to keep for the long term, and if you change address
> 	 please remember to update or remove the entry"
> 
> > A bit more than half of the tags in the tree don't include an email 
> > address already and I'll submit patches removing more...
> 
> And I'll NAK every one which hasn't been signed off by the email address
> listed OR the address bounces. In which case removing it is good.

Can't we just subtitle it somehow? Add tags: " (current maintainer)",
" (original author, inactive)", " (bug and defect reports)", or whatever 
you like after the names.
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