Re: SECOND REMINDER on Qlogic driver license conversion

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 08:00:17AM +0200, Lukas Bulwahn wrote:
> Dear Qlogic driver maintainers, dear Nilesh, deat Shahed, dear Manish,
> 
> 
> during an unrelated kernel clean-up task, I noticed some LICENSE files for 
> the qlogic drivers hanging around in Documentation.
> 
> Thomas Gleixner has provided you a patch series in June 2019 to pick up or 
> simply add a Reviewed-by tag here:
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-spdx/20190606205526.447558989@linutronix.de
> 
> As it seems from the public mailing list archive, you have never responded 
> to Thomas' request. If you could indicate that the change is fine for you,
> I am happy to rebase the patch series to the current next tree, so that 
> Thomas can pick that up and let it travel through the spdx tree to Linus 
> for the next release.
> 
> See first reminder here:
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-spdx/alpine.DEB.2.21.2006300644130.4919@felia/
> 
> Just to let you know, I will send a third reminder in a few months, and 
> if there is no response to that, I will just send a patch to mark those 
> drivers where QLogic-Storage-Upstream@qlogic.com or 
> GR-Linux-NIC-Dev@marvell.com are maintainers as Orphaned, just to keep 
> MAINTAINERS reflect the actual state.

This is why I hate having "group aliases" as maintainers.  It doesn't
work as we never know who "really" is maintaining the code, and there is
no accountability.

Given the length of a lack of response so far, I would suggest just
marking it orphaned now.  If someone wants to step up in the future to
maintain it, great, but it needs to be a person, not an email alias.

thanks,

greg k-h