Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 20 Aug 2006 18:51:23 -0400 | From | Sean <> | Subject | Re: Adrian Bunk is now taking over the 2.6.16-stable branch |
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On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 00:30:46 +0200 Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> wrote:
> I think it would be great to have the users choosing their preferred > maintainer to end the era of maintainers being decided by other > maintainers like you actually did. A simple website on kernel.org can > achieve it, where users can registers for voting and the maintainers > willing to maintain 2.6-stable can registers themself too. That's at > least less random than the current status if what you said above is > true and if 2.6.16-stable is meant to reach any critical mass.
There's no need for a vote. Users already vote for a maintainer when they decide to use a paticular kernel tree.
No user is forced to follow a particular maintainer. And anyone can step up and declare that they are also offering a maintained tree.
And this situation is already self correcting; if no users follow, it's unlikely that a maintainer will continue doing the required work. And if a maintainer doesn't do a satisfactory job, it's very unlikely many people will choose to use that tree.
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