Re: RFC: Move sparse.git inside linux-kernel-2.6.git?

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

Samuel Bronson wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Christopher Li<sparse@chrisli.org> wrote:
>> On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Samuel Bronson <naesten@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> About that ... shouldn't the URL on the sparse web page be
>>> "git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/devel/sparse/chrisl/sparse.git", not
>>> "git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/devel/sparse/sparse.git"?
>> I don't have permission on the sparse web page. Josh is still
>> the official maintainer. But he has been very quietly on the project recently.
>> That is the main reason I created my tree. I don't want good patch get
>> lost.
>>
>> I did not mean to fork the sparse project. I don't know how to resolve
>> it either.
> 
> Nobody is going to hold having maybe accidentally become the
> maintainer *against* you.
> Not to say you won't suffer for it -- people will always be expecting
> you to review patches and so forth -- but they won't hold it against
> you.

If there is clear consensus within the Sparse devel community that Chris
is the new maintainer, I will give him write access to the relevant
directories.  That's better than having the chrisl/ directory become
official.

	-hpa

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