Introducing status field to MAINTAINERS?
Stephen Hemminger
stephen at networkplumber.org
Tue Jul 4 00:10:57 CEST 2023
While going through the old patches, noticed some that are in parts
of DPDK that are pretty much abandoned.
My suggestion would be introduce a subsystem status field in MAINTAINERS
similar to what is done in Linux kernel.
S: *Status*, one of the following:
Supported: Someone is actually paid to look after this.
Maintained: Someone actually looks after it.
Odd Fixes: It has a maintainer but they don't have time to do
much other than throw the odd patch in. See below..
Orphan: No current maintainer [but maybe you could take the
role as you write your new code].
Obsolete: Old code. Something tagged obsolete generally means
it has been replaced by a better system and you
should be using that.
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