Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Remove all S: entries

[Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

On 07.04.2020 18:15, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Feature support status is tracked in SUPPORT.md nowadays.

It is, yes.

> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -69,16 +69,6 @@ Descriptions of section entries:
>       L: Mailing list that is relevant to this area
>       W: Web-page with status/info
>       T: SCM tree type and location.  Type is one of: git, hg, quilt, stgit.
> -     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 -                     it has been replaced by a better system and you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.

I agree with Julien: What we express here is not really overlapping
with SUPPORT.md - the may be cases where this is so, but there are
also ones where it's not.

Jan