From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yann Droneaud Subject: Re: Stepping down as maintainer (was Re: [PATCH for-next 0/9] mlx4 changes in virtual GID management) Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2015 19:16:33 +0200 Message-ID: <1428858993.3470.12.camel@dworkin> References: <1828884A29C6694DAF28B7E6B8A82373A8FC0120@ORSMSX109.amr.corp.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1828884A29C6694DAF28B7E6B8A82373A8FC0120-P5GAC/sN6hkd3b2yrw5b5LfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: "Hefty, Sean" Cc: Roland Dreier , Doug Ledford , "Hal Rosenstock (hal-LDSdmyG8hGV8YrgS2mwiifqBs+8SCbDb@public.gmane.org)" , David Miller , Or Gerlitz , "Weiny, Ira" , "linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , "talal-VPRAkNaXOzVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org" , Amir Vadai , Sagi Grimberg , Haggai Eran , Shachar Raindel , Jason Gunthorpe List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org Hi, Le vendredi 10 avril 2015 =C3=A0 20:39 +0000, Hefty, Sean a =C3=A9crit = : > > I'm on a perhaps-unfortunately-timed vacation this week, but to mak= e > > the transition smooth, I'll handle the easy patches that are in fli= ght > > for 4.1, and then turn things over to the community for 4.2. (Unle= ss > > the feeling is that it's better for me to step down immediately =E2= =80=94 I > > have no problem doing that, I just don't want to leave people in th= e > > lurch) >=20 > This transition plan makes sense to me. I can dedicate more of my > time helping to review kernel patches, at least for a couple of > months. Hal is listed as the other sub-maintainer. He usually limit= s > his input to the IB mgmt components, but maybe he can contribute more > until we're over this hump? >=20 > I'm not trying to volunteer anyone, but longer term, Doug appears to > be in an ideal situation for maintaining the RDMA subtree. Because o= f > his position at RedHat, he has a strong interest in ensuring user > space compatibility, can test across a wide range of devices, and > needs to deal with long term maintenance issues. >=20 That would make sense to have someone like Doug or Jason being the potential successors to Roland in order to keep InfiniBand subsystem vendor neutrality. Regards. --=20 Yann Droneaud OPTEYA -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" i= n the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html