Re: [XFS] Update maintainers

From: Alan Cox
Date: Mon Jan 19 2009 - 06:15:47 EST


On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 14:21:49 -0800
Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 16:06 -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > In either way listing a company as maintainer is wrong. Maintainers
> > are invidual persons or teams thereof and not companies.
>
> I believe:
>
> It's better to have individuals listed
> Front-end company/org addresses should be OK
> Names without email addresses should not be OK

Agreed entirely - people move between companies. In many cases we've had
tons of stuff to maintainers simply go missing because people left,
Having it go to internal groups makes a lot more sense if that is what
people want.

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