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Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 00:05:02 +0100 From: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@...e.de> Cc: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org Subject: Re: Adrian Bunk is now taking over the 2.6.16-stable branch Ar Llu, 2006-08-21 am 00:30 +0200, ysgrifennodd Andrea Arcangeli: > On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 09:52:34PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > Greg didn't "elect" anyone, Adrian volunteered to maintain something > > that had been dropped by the -stable developers and no one else was > > going to maintain. > > Did you ever call for a maintainer list of volunteers? That isn't the normal way of doing things around here. Linus has always taken the approach of picking who he trusts to hand stuff onto, as have others when handing on further. > To me an official 2.6.16-stable in the hands of the only guy who > proposed himself as maintainer, sounds worse than no stable tree at > all. 2.6.16-stable is in the hands of someone that Greg (2.6.17-stable, ex 2.6.16-stable, 2.6 head temporary chief maintainer) thinks is a good person to do the job. That sounds to me quite sensible selection criteria, and Adrian is certainly up to the job. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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