linux-kernel - Re: Adrian Bunk is now taking over the 2.6.16-stable branch

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Message-Id: <20060820185123.e84fafaf.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Date:	Sun, 20 Aug 2006 18:51:23 -0400
From:	Sean <seanlkml@...patico.ca>
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

On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 00:30:46 +0200
Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@...e.de> wrote:

> I think it would be great to have the users choosing their preferred
> maintainer to end the era of maintainers being decided by other
> maintainers like you actually did. A simple website on kernel.org can
> achieve it, where users can registers for voting and the maintainers
> willing to maintain 2.6-stable can registers themself too. That's at
> least less random than the current status if what you said above is
> true and if 2.6.16-stable is meant to reach any critical mass.

There's no need for a vote.  Users already vote for a maintainer when
they decide to use a paticular kernel tree.

No user is forced to follow a particular maintainer.  And anyone can step
up and declare that they are also offering a maintained tree.

And this situation is already self correcting; if no users follow, it's
unlikely that a maintainer will continue doing the required work.  And
if a maintainer doesn't do a satisfactory job, it's very unlikely many
people will choose to use that tree.

Sean
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