From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: RFC: Move sparse.git inside linux-kernel-2.6.git? Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:48:00 -0700 Message-ID: <4A438E20.5070704@zytor.com> References: <20090618192058.GB14086@uranus.ravnborg.org> <70318cbf0906181340j3b04b2b4hb95f6c8648dea70b@mail.gmail.com> <70318cbf0906211133k55fda10exc14ca2fed4336105@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:51305 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752210AbZFYSzj (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:55:39 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-sparse-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org To: Samuel Bronson Cc: Christopher Li , Sam Ravnborg , linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds Samuel Bronson wrote: > On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Christopher Li wrote: >> On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Samuel Bronson 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 -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.