Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Jul 2008 15:25:48 -0400 | From | Josh Boyer <> | Subject | Re: Deputy maintainer for powerpc |
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On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 09:44:31 -0500 Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> > On Jul 4, 2008, at 1:02 AM, Paul Mackerras wrote: > > > I'm going to be on vacation for the next two weeks, and it looks > > highly likely that Linus will open the 2.6.27 merge window during that > > time, so I'm appointing Ben Herrenschmidt as my deputy maintainer. > > During the next two weeks, he'll be the person collecting together any > > further powerpc-related commits that need to go upstream, and sending > > pull requests to Linus as necessary. > > > > This is the start of a longer-term transition which will ultimately > > result in me handing over the powerpc architecture maintainership to > > Ben. Because of various work commitments, this will be a gradual > > transition taking probably around 6 months. > > > > Paul. > > Ben, Do you have a tree that you'll be using to collect things in?
I hope it's the same tree for this merge window.
In the future, I hope the semantics of the various branches of the new tree either stays the same, or comes with a detailed description of what branch means what (assuming there is a new tree at some point).
josh
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