On Mon, Jul 03, 2023 at 03:10:57PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> While going through the old patches, noticed some that are in parts
> of DPDK that are pretty much abandoned.
> 
> My suggestion would be introduce a subsystem status field in MAINTAINERS
> similar to what is done in Linux kernel.
> 
>       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                       it has been replaced by a better system and you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.

That seems a useful addition. +1 to add the extra info.

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