[oe] [RFC] Removing MAINTAINER field from recipes

[Koen Kooi]

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Hi,

After some discussion about the actual meaning of the MAINTAINER field in OE we have
formulated a proposal:

  'All MAINTAINER fields will be removed from the recipes in org.openembedded.dev, and
will only be valid in a distro config file'

We have a number of reasons for doing this:

 * A lot of the MAINTAINER fields are stale
 * Not all people listed in the MAINTAINER fields (want to) have commit access
 * People have blindly copied recipes without contacting the respective MAINTAINER
 * Certain MAINTAINER only care about supporting their $DISTRO
 * The SCM (monotone) holds all the information about who added the recipes and who edited
them.

For monotone-challenged people and tarball snapshots we will add a file into the metadata
that will like names, contact information and interested areas, for example:

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Koen Kooi <koen at openembedded.org>

	* abiword, abiword-plugins
	* angstrom distro and task files
	* h2200, hx4700, efika, ep93xx, netbook-pro machines

Michael 'mickeyl' Lauer <mickeyl at openembedded.org>

	* everything python related
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You can view the patch implementing said proposal at
http://www.openembedded.org/~koen/OE/remove-maintainers.patch

regards,

Koen
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