linux-kernel - Re: Change in security maintainer for a few weeks

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Date:	Tue, 10 Jun 2014 21:34:40 -0400
From:	Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Change in security maintainer for a few weeks

On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 13:23 -0700, Greg KH wrote: 
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 03:20:15PM +1000, James Morris wrote:
> > On Thu, 5 Jun 2014, Greg KH wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > James has had to step back from doing kernel work for a few weeks, so
> > > I've offered to step up and handle the security patches to get shuttled
> > > to Linus for merging for a while.
> > > 
> > > I'll take his git tree on kernel.org and push those to Linus for
> > > 3.16-rc1, as those look like they have had proper testing in linux-next.
> > > 
> > > But there only seems to be 14 patches in there.  Are there pending
> > > patches that people have been sending and need to get in besides those?
> > > 
> > 
> > Thanks for stepping up.
> > 
> > I had to take urgent leave and was unable to access email until this week.
> > 
> > We really should have a co-maintainer for the security subsystem -- please 
> > feel free to nominate someone.
> > 
> > There are several good candidates, including Serge, Kees and Paul Moore.
> 
> As Serge has done it in the past when you are on vacation, I suggest he
> continue doing it.

As long as Serge agrees, that sounds good.

Mimi

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