linux-kernel - Re: Stepping down as Trivial tree maintainer

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Date:	Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:50:21 +0100
From:	"Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@...il.com>
To:	"Jiri Kosina" <jkosina@...e.cz>
Cc:	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Stephen Rothwell" <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Trivial Patch Monkey" <trivial@...nel.org>,
	"Kees Cook" <kees@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: Stepping down as Trivial tree maintainer - no time due to work and family

2008/10/30 Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>:
> On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Jesper Juhl wrote:
>
>> This is to announce officially that I'm stepping down as Trivial tree
>> maintainer.
>> There are a few different reasons.
>
> First, congratulations to those 'personal reasons' :)
>
Thank you :)

> [ ... ]
>> So, since I simply don't have the time to do a proper job as Trivial
>> maintainer, I'm stepping down. I should have done this earlier, but I
>> kept hoping that I would find the time.
>
> How much are people used to submit trivial patches to trivial@...nel.org?
> I.e. what is the approximate volume of patches per major kernel release
> that usually goes through trivial tree?
>
It's about 10-20 emails a month which can end up between zero and
<number of emails> patches, depending on what people send.

> If noone else wants to take this over, and general feeling is that trivial
> patch tree is still needed, I could eventually do that.
>
I think it would be in good hands with you, so I'll happily hand it
over. If you submit a patch that changes the MAINTAINERS file to list
you as trivial maintainer instead of me, then I'll ACK it.

> --
> Jiri Kosina
> SUSE Labs
>
>

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