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

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Message-ID: <87frix5dk3.fsf@kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2025 17:23:56 +0100
From: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@...nel.org>
To: "Christoph Hellwig" <hch@...radead.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

Hi Christoph,

"Christoph Hellwig" <hch@...radead.org> writes:

> 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 Joel is no longer active in the community.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.

It was a recommendation given by several people in the plenary session I
had 10 AM local time on March 25 at LSF. There was agreement in the
sense that several people recommended this course action and nobody
objected.

> 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.

I am deeply sorry for not Cc'ing Joel, that is a mistake. I did not do
it out of disrespect or ill intent, I simply did not think about it.
Thank you for correcting this, I appreciate that.

I have sent emails to Joel at least 4 times since the first rust
configfs series was sent, and I have offered my assistance in
maintaining configfs if that is the reason of no response.

Best regards,
Andreas Hindborg