Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: mark ecryptfs as orphan state

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Mar 21 2023 - 02:36:26 EST


On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 02:21:03AM +0800, Yangtao Li wrote:
> ecryptfs has been inactive for a long time, and in fact the filesystem
> has no active maintainers. I sent a patch last August, no response
> till now. Let's mark it as Orphan status.
>
> Maybe in 2025 we can remove this unmaintained file system?
>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Why send this to me?

> Signed-off-by: Yangtao Li <frank.li@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> MAINTAINERS | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 541e7dc05f48..4a6236d5a6ce 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -7270,7 +7270,7 @@ F: drivers/media/dvb-frontends/ec100*
> ECRYPT FILE SYSTEM
> M: Tyler Hicks <code@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> L: ecryptfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> -S: Odd Fixes
> +S: Orphan

Why not also cc: the two email addresses here? And if this is really
orphaned, then remove them as well, right?

> W: http://ecryptfs.org
> W: https://launchpad.net/ecryptfs
> T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tyhicks/ecryptfs.git

These all too need to go if this really is orphaned code. But first,
try sending it to the right people (like the linux-fs mailing list as
well?)

thanks,

greg k-h