Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2 2/2] MAINTAINERS: remove Blue Swirl as SPARC maintainer

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 14/06/2016 10:33, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> The remaining ones are
> effectively orphaned, but you can't see that in MAINTAINERS.  I feel
> keeping status there honest is important.
> 
>     Subsystems
>     ----------
>     Checkpatch
>     M: Blue Swirl <address@hidden>
>     S: Odd Fixes
>     F: scripts/checkpatch.pl

This one is okay to remove M and even bump to Maintained.  It is in
obviously heavy use and has been in the "miscellaneous" pool for a
while.  But I don't really long for having my name attached to it. :)

> 
>     Usermode Emulation
>     ------------------
>     BSD user
>     M: Blue Swirl <address@hidden>
>     S: Maintained
>     F: bsd-user/

The FreeBSD guys have effectively forked bsd-user.  Orphan is appropriate.

>     Tiny Code Generator (TCG)
>     -------------------------
>     SPARC target
>     M: Blue Swirl <address@hidden>
>     S: Maintained
>     F: tcg/sparc/
>     F: disas/sparc.c

Remove M and leave it as Odd Fixes, the TCG maintainers can have a look
at the occasional patch.

Paolo