Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: remove dead e-mails

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue Sep 14 2021 - 11:51:38 EST


On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 2:26 AM Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> jacmet@xxxxxxxxxx and linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are dead:

Please say "these email addresses no longer work" - the "are dead"
makes it sound like the people have died. Which is not impossible, but
not what you verified.

> Remove them from MAINTAINERS.

If the only maintainer email is gone, then you can't reasonably leave these as

S: Maintained

and that should be updated too.

Linus