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Bogus/outdated entries in MAINTAINERS
- From: Volker Reichelt <reichelt at igpm dot rwth-aachen dot de>
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Cc: law at redhat dot com, mark at codesourcery dot com
- Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 12:00:50 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Bogus/outdated entries in MAINTAINERS
- Reply-to: Volker Reichelt <reichelt at igpm dot rwth-aachen dot de>
The end of the MAINTAINERS file bugs me for quite some time now.
The last entries read:
Peter Bienstman(?)
Benjamin Chelf(?)
Mark Galassi(?)
It seems like GCC does not know who the maintainers are and that looks
unprofessional to me. :-(
These entries appeared with a patch from Jeff Law (looks like this was back
in EGCS's time):
http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/gcc/MAINTAINERS.diff?cvsroot=gcc&r1=1.156&r2=1.157
I also also had a look into Bugzilla and the ChangeLog files and found
the following:
* not a single trace of Mark Galassi
* three bug reports of Peter Bienstman (1007, 1008, 1029), but nothing else
* Benjamin Chelf appears in the ChangeLogs in June/July 2000
as "Benjamin Chelf <chelf@codesourcery.com>", but never again
IMHO there's no reason at all to keep the first two in the MAINTAINERS file.
Maybe one could at least move B. Chelf to an appropriate category.
There are several more issues that also apply to inactive maintainers:
* Do they still have a login? Having more logins than necessary might
be a security risk.
* Do we want to keep inactive maintainers in the file forever?
Do we want to have a category like "former maintainer" or is the
contributors file more appropriate?
Regards,
Volker