linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: configfs: add Andreas Hindborg as maintainer

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Message-ID: <Z-aDV4ae3p8_C6k7@infradead.org>
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2025 04:09:11 -0700
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@...nel.org>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Breno Leitao <leitao@...ian.org>,
	Joel Becker <jlbec@...lplan.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: configfs: add Andreas Hindborg as maintainer

On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 05:45:30PM +0100, Andreas Hindborg wrote:
> As recommended in plenary session at LSF/MM plenary session on March 25 2025.
> Joel is no longer active in the community.

I'm not sure who decided that, but that's an exceptionally offensive move.

Joel has helped actually reviewing configfs patches even when I as running
the tree, and I explicitly confirmed with him that he is willing to
maintain it alone when I dropped the maintainership.  You've not even
Ced him to tell him about how you force him out of the subsystem he
created.