On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 06:39:09PM -0400, Paul Moore wrote: > 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.
That's great, as the communication around this has not been very much (an non-existant on the subsystem mailing list) I was not aware of it. If Serge wants to do this, and as he has been the stand-in for James in the past, I have _no_ objection to this at all. Serge, feel free to resend your patches to Linus if he doesn't pick them up in a few days, with the information that you are doing this in James's absence for a while. So, that was easy, I don't have to do this at all, great. greg k-h -- 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/
