Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 6 Jun 2014 17:23:25 +0200 | From | "Serge E. Hallyn" <> | Subject | Re: Change in security maintainer for a few weeks |
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Quoting Casey Schaufler (casey@schaufler-ca.com): > On 6/5/2014 9:42 PM, Serge Hallyn wrote: > > Quoting Greg KH (gregkh@linuxfoundation.org): > >> 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.morris@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. > > Will do (and wil cc: lsm). > > > >> So, that was easy, I don't have to do this at all, great. > >> > >> greg k-h > > How can I verify that the pull James accepted from me is > moving forward somehow? Or, if it isn't, where does it go now?
You can see it at https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/sergeh/linux-security.git/log/security/smack?h=serge-next-1 As Greg suggested if Linus doesn't pull it in a few days I will resend the pull request.
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