On Thursday, June 05, 2014 11:59:11 PM Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Thu, 5 Jun 2014, Greg KH wrote: > > 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. > > As exactly this (working with active contributors to help co-maintain the > subsystem) has been brought at the ksummit maling list, I am just curious > whether noone else actively working in that area was willing to step up? > > $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --git -f security/ > James Morris <james.l.mor...@oracle.com> (supporter:SECURITY SUBSYSTEM) > ... > > If not, then I think this can be shown as a prime example why the problem > of "non-substituability" of many maintainers is actually real.
Once several of us became aware that James was stepping away for a few weeks (I should mention this was not a planned absence and took most of us by surprise) we had a brief discussion off-list and several of us did offer to "step-up"; Serge had already created a repo and since he had pushed patches while James was away in the past it seemed a reasonable approach this time around. -- paul moore www.paul-moore.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
