17/07/2023 16:12, Bruce Richardson: > 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 it has been replaced by a better system and you 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.
I think we prefer removing unmaintained code.
