On Wed, 2017-09-06 at 11:08 +0200, Thomas Meyer wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 02:22:05PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> > nothing prevented you from CC:'ing the maintainer,
> > Jeff Kirscher.
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> That's the other condition in my script. I only send to the role
> "maintainer" from the output of get_maintainer.pl. But Mr Jeff
> Kirscher is only listed as supporter...
Supporter means he gets paid to look after that
subsystem so he is something other than a volunteer.
from MAINTAINERS:
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it has been replaced by a better system and you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.
