Re: [PATCH net] MAINTAINERS: remove names from mailing list maintainers

[Joe Perches]

On Wed, 2020-12-23 at 02:50 +0000, patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@xxxxxxxxxx
wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (refs/heads/master):
> 
> On Sat, 19 Dec 2020 10:55:38 -0800 you wrote:
> > When searching for inactive maintainers it's useful to filter
> > out mailing list addresses. Such "maintainers" will obviously
> > never feature in a "From:" line of an email or a review tag.
> > 
> > Since "L:" entries only provide the address of a mailing list
> > without a fancy name extend this pattern to "M:" entries.
> > 
> > [...]
> 
> Here is the summary with links:
>   - [net] MAINTAINERS: remove names from mailing list maintainers
>     https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/8b0f64b113d6
> 
> You are awesome, thank you!

I still think this is not a good patch nor mechanism to
show what is generally used as exploders rather than
individuals.

Effectively only individuals can submit patches and so
can be M: Maintainers.

I believe these entries should really use R: Reviewer
entries and keep the descriptive naming content.

The descriptive naming does add value and this patch
loses that value.