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

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Date:	Thu, 24 Aug 2006 15:00:03 +0200
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz>
To:	Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@...e.de>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	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

On Mon 2006-08-21 11:35:38, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 11:21:21PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> > There is a tree of trust, and responsibilities like this are
> > simply handed down.
> 
> That works as long as you trust and you are ok with every leaf of the
> tree. I'm not, both a developer and more important as an user.

As an user, that's not your problem.

As a developer, if you don't like Adrian doing that, perhaps you
should have volunteered to maintain it yourself. Or you can work with
Adrian to make sure he does nothing strange.

But I think Adrian is very good person to do this, and with strong
review process in place we currently have.... I don't see what the
problem is.
								Pavel
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