Unmaintained input drivers deactivated

Peter Hutterer peter.hutterer at who-t.net
Tue Feb 17 16:55:38 PST 2009


On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 03:15:53PM -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Peter Hutterer wrote:
> > These drivers are unmaintained and have not seen any updates other than build
> > fixes since their original imports into the X.Org repositories.
> 
> Perhaps we should split the "Unmaintained" state in the MAINTAINERS file into
> a "Not actively maintained/Community maintained" and a "Actively Unmaintained"
> so that these are clearly different than all the Xorg apps and libraries that
> don't have individual maintainers assigned.    These don't quite seem to fit
> into "Obsolete" as they could become actively maintained if anyone cared to
> do so, where Obsolete seems to be intended to be a permanent state.

Good point. I would hesitate to re-use maintained too many times to reduce
confusion. What about simply introducing a new state "Deactivated"?

Cheers,
  Peter



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