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From: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2022 10:55:44 +0200
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Subject: Re: Validating MAINTAINERS entries?
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>, 
	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>, ksummit@lists.linux.dev
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On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 10:50 AM Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 11:26:40AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 09, 2022 at 05:13:16PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > > Several times in the past, when using MAINTAINERS list either automatically
> > > (or from manual entry) have found the mailing address in the file is no longer valid.
> > >
> > > What about doing an annual probe mail to all maintainers and sending
> > > a patch to prune out any addresses that auto respond as dead.
> > > This won't catch ghost entries but would find any dead ones.
> > >
> >
> > Also we could add a RETIRED file or something for when people retire and
> > don't want get_maintainer.pl hassling them.
>
> Isn't that what CREDITS is for?
>

I agree with Greg here.

For:
"a RETIRED file or something for when people retire" -> CREDITS
"don't want get_maintainer.pl hassling them" -> .get_maintainer.ignore

Choose what fits for your case.

Lukas