Re: [Qemu-devel] Bouncing maintainers

[Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>]

On Tue, 03/31 12:01, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > On 03/26/2015 09:19 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> >> Am 25.03.2015 um 16:45 hat John Snow geschrieben:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 03/25/2015 10:48 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> >>>> I just had another cc: to an address gotten from MAINTAINERS bounce with
> >>>> "user unknown".
> >>>>
> >>>> How do we weed out dead MAINTAINERS entries?
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Automated spambot that runs once a release cycle and reports back to
> >>> the list which entries were dead?
> >>
> >> I don't need more email. Why can't we just send a patch to MAINTAINERS
> >> dropping the line the first time someone actually notices it?
> >>
> >> Kevin
> >>
> >
> > Could make a bot that just watches from: addresses on the list. If it
> > sees a mail from you within the last release cycle, it assumes you are
> > still alive.
> 
> Is this something patchew could do for us?  It already watches list
> traffic.

Yes.

Patchew can be added a page to list active addresses by release cycles. By
comparing against MAINTAINERS file we know who are inactive.

Fam

> 
> > If it doesn't hear from you for an entire release cycle, it sends out
> > a small ping and looks for bounces.
> 
> I'm not sure I'd bother with the ping.  Post the list of absentee
> maintainers, and let humans take it from there.
> 
> > Only once a release would be not more than four times a year, and most
> > active maintainers would never see a single email.
> >
> > Or, yes, manually when it happens...