At the beginning of March I went through our MAINTAINERS file to
identify all the email addresses which hadn't been used to post to
qemu-devel in at least three years. (There were 50 of those.) I sent
all of those people a query via private email to see if they were
still interested in QEMU and still wanted to be listed in our
MAINTAINERS file. About half of them responded to me either agreeing
that they would rather be removed, or requesting that they stay
listed.
The aim of this cleanup is to give us a more accurate idea of which
parts of the project are or are not actively maintained, and to avoid
CCing people on emails they're no longer interested in receiving.
This patchset removes from MAINTAINERS those people who didn't
respond. To all of these people, I'd like to say thank you on behalf
of the project for your work on QEMU, and for helping us in reviewing
code and maintainer duties. If you wish to be re-listed in future,
we'll happily put your name back in the file.
I've done the changes with one person per commit, to make it easier
if we potentially want to revert any of them in future.
The removals here leave the following subsections in Orphan status:
- Performance Tools and Tests (scripts/performance)
- VHDX block backend
- Vhost-user block device backend server
- ACPI/HEST/GHES (hw/acpi/ghes.c)
- LoongArch64 TCG target
- PCIE DOE (hw/pci/doe.c)
- Tricore TCG target
- or1k-sim OpenRISC machine
- ARM ACPI Subsystem (hw/arm/virt-acpi-build.c)
- Intel Hexadecimal Object File Loader
- Shakti C class RISC-V SoC
- Replication block filter (block/replication.c)
If anybody cares about the above and wants to step forward
to help with maintaining them, let us know. In some cases
above we could merge into existing sections, e.g.:
* "ARM ACPI Subsystem" merged into "ACPI/SMBIOS" (it has only
one listed file, which we already list also in ACPI/SMBIOS,
so this amounts to "just delete the section")
* merge "ACPI/HEST/GHES" and "ACPI/HEST/GHES/ARM processor CPER" ?
Or merge "ACPI/HEST/GHES" into "ACPI/SMBIOS" ? (the wildcarding
in the latter means it already covers most of the same files)
thanks
-- PMM
Peter Maydell (28):
MAINTAINERS: Remove Ahmed Karaman
MAINTAINERS: Remove Anup Patel
MAINTAINERS: Remove Beniamino Galvani
MAINTAINERS: Remove Jeff Cody
MAINTAINERS: Remove Coiby Xu
MAINTAINERS: Remove Damien Hedde
MAINTAINERS: Remove Ed Maste
MAINTAINERS: Remove Dongjiu Geng
MAINTAINERS: Remove WANG Xuerui
MAINTAINERS: Remove Huai-Cheng Kuo
MAINTAINERS: Remove Bastian Koppelmann
MAINTAINERS: Remove Mahmoud Mandour
MAINTAINERS: Remove Magnus Damm
MAINTAINERS: Remove Marcel Apfelbaum
MAINTAINERS: Remove Aarushi Mehta
MAINTAINERS: Remove Paul Burton
MAINTAINERS: Remove Jia Liu
MAINTAINERS: Remove Qiuhao Li
MAINTAINERS: Remove Luigi Rizzo
MAINTAINERS: Remove Ronnie Sahlberg
MAINTAINERS: Remove Ryo ONODERA
MAINTAINERS: Remove Shannon Zhao
MAINTAINERS: Remove Su Hang
MAINTAINERS: Remove Vijai Kumar K
MAINTAINERS: Remove Yanan Wang
MAINTAINERS: Remove Wen Congyang
MAINTAINERS: Remove Xiao Guangrong
MAINTAINERS: Remove Xie Changlong
MAINTAINERS | 55 ++++++++++++-----------------------------------------
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)
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