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

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Message-Id: <20060820.232121.59475829.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sun, 20 Aug 2006 23:21:21 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk
Cc:	andrea@...e.de, greg@...ah.com, bunk@...sta.de, 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

From: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 00:05:02 +0100

> Ar Llu, 2006-08-21 am 00:30 +0200, ysgrifennodd Andrea Arcangeli:
> > 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.

Totally agreed.

This voting idea is absolute nonsense.

There is a tree of trust, and responsibilities like this are
simply handed down.
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