admin/MAINTAINER edits

[Glenn Morris]

What's going on with all these pointless (IMO) admin/MAINTAINER edits?

Section 3 "the list of areas for which no maintainer has been found so far"
has recently been filled out with a huge dump of files. Eg

lisp/calendar/*
lisp/gnus/*
lisp/progmodes/f90.el
etc etc

These things are not unmaintained.
Nor are the vast majority of items in that section.

IMO MAINTAINERS, which was neglected for years, isn't very important.
I was hoping to just see it go away, not get revived. It just sits
around duplicating information, getting outdated, and not being used.

If someone is listed in an individual file's header, listing them again
in this file is just pointless duplication.
(And the presumption is that the Author is the Maintainer if none is
explicitly listed.)

IMO the MAINTAINERS files was only every really "useful" for abstract
things like

Jason Rumney
      W32

(BTW, that entry is fairly obviously no longer appropriate, as are some
others.)