| Message ID | 200902031005.41788.knikanth@suse.de (mailing list archive) |
|---|---|
| State | RFC, archived |
| Delegated to: | Alasdair Kergon |
| Headers | show |
On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 10:05:41AM +0530, Nikanth Karthikesan wrote:
> Mark device-mapper as Supported in MAINTAINERS file.
Supported: Someone is actually paid to look after this.
Maintained: Someone actually looks after it.
Both of those apply and I would argue that, given the use of the word
'actually' in those definitions, 'Maintained' is better than 'Supported'.
Alasdair
On Thursday 05 March 2009 23:37:11 Alasdair G Kergon wrote: > On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 10:05:41AM +0530, Nikanth Karthikesan wrote: > > Mark device-mapper as Supported in MAINTAINERS file. > > Supported: Someone is actually paid to look after this. > Maintained: Someone actually looks after it. > > Both of those apply and I would argue that, given the use of the word > 'actually' in those definitions, 'Maintained' is better than 'Supported'. > I think that 'Supported' is a superset of 'Maintained'. In general the list looks like specifies the 'status' from maximum support to nothing. Supported > Maintained > Odd Fixes > Orphan > Obsolete ? Thanks Nikanth -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 474ec0c..cd73850 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -1387,7 +1387,7 @@ DEVICE-MAPPER (LVM) P: Alasdair Kergon L: dm-devel@redhat.com W: http://sources.redhat.com/dm -S: Maintained +S: Supported DIGI INTL. EPCA DRIVER P: Digi International, Inc
Mark device-mapper as Supported in MAINTAINERS file. Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de> --- -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel