E-mail subaddressing

Posted Jan 14, 2021 21:29 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1)
In reply to: E-mail subaddressing by mchehab
Parent article: MAINTAINERS truth and fiction

Many of the +addresses are handled explicitly in the alias list; I doubt this is the only one to have slipped through, though...

E-mail subaddressing

Posted Jan 14, 2021 21:54 UTC (Thu) by mchehab (subscriber, #41156) [Link]

> Many of the +addresses are handled explicitly in the alias list; I doubt this is the only one to have slipped through, though...

Makes sense for gitdm itself, as it would make sense to give different vendor credits for: name+vendor_a@bar and name+vendor_b@bar.

In the specific case of just checking if a MAINTAINERS file has updated e-mails, I guess the script could simply ignore "+vendor" part of the e-mails, if, by doing that, there's a match.

Btw, thanks for this article! It is very nice to see some analysis about the quality of the entries at MAINTAINERS!