At Fri, 11 May 2007 03:08:28 +0200, Rene Herman wrote:
Hi Takashi.
Following up the recent MODULE_MAINTAINER discussion on LKML:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/4/170
that concluded with MODULE_MAINTAINER not being a good idea, here's a patch that just deletes the email addresses from the MODULE_AUTHOR tags for ALSA.
The email address is the problem I was trying to fix; with multiple current and non-current authors and maintainers who might not even be authors the address(es) available from the tag confuse the issue of whom to contact. It's moreover also information that easily outdated.
A bit more than half of the tags in the kernel don't include an email address already (the core contributors typically don't include any) and I'll submit patches removing more.
Did we get consensus about this removal action? I've seen only one follow up by Krzysztof. (I personlly don't mind to remove mail addresses, though.)
Takashi