Re: Validating MAINTAINERS entries?

[Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 12:50:50PM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
>
> I am presently plagued with reviews for lots of files that I've
> touched over the years.  Even if the changes were trivial.
> 
> Or is this just an education point?

Education is not the answer.

We've got thousands of devs and no one can keep track of everyone and
their motives.

When I send patches, there are few people that I know what they're about
and I manually delete them.  I also know which mailing lists those
people read so normally they're going to get the email even if they're
not on the CC list.

Other times, I wonder why maintainers are still on the CC list if they
haven't been active in years.  But I'm not going to manually remove
them.  It's worse to get chewed out for not CCing someone than for
including them.

The one split which is quite confusing to me is the netdev vs wireless
split.  For wireless patches, I generelly delete all the netdev
maintainers.  Some people I'm not sure what they care about so I leave
them.

regards,
dan carpenter