Re: Change in security maintainer for a few weeks

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Jun 05 2014 - 18:49:36 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxx> (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
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