Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: remove myself as THP co-maintainer

["Lian Wang (ProcessMission)" <lianux.mm@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:31:09 +0100 "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org> wrote:

> Since it's 2026 :) I asked Claude to look at my time as THP co-maintainer:
>
> 	~107,000 words of review across 948 emails (in 279 distinct
> 	threads), counting only prose you actually wrote — quoted text,
> 	signatures and attribution lines stripped. That's a full novel's
> 	worth of review commentary.
>
> 	Along the way you handed out 194 Reviewed-by and 15 Acked-by tags,
> 	and your longest single review was 2,404 words (mTHP collapse
> 	support, v12 — the khugepaged/mTHP collapse saga accounts for most
> 	of your top-10 longest reviews).
>
> 	Estimated review time: roughly 300–500 hours, centred around ~400
> 	(i.e. ~7 hours/week for 14 months).
>
> 	1,615 THP-related emails in the window: 948 reviews of others'
> 	work, 278 replies on your own THP-touching series threads (~31k
> 	more words responding to review), 382 patch emails, and a handful
> 	of MAINTAINERS bits. Busiest months: March 2026 (131 review
> 	emails), June 2026 (113), August 2026 (111); quietest was December
> 	2025 (5).
>
> Think I can be happy with that!
>
> --
> Cheers, Lorenzo

You certainly can.  Thank you very much for everything you have done for
THP and for all the people whose work you have reviewed.

You and David were among the first people to review the first patch I
sent.  Later, SJ, Zi Yan, Mark Brown, and many others also began helping
me.  Although I kept making mistakes, I genuinely wanted to learn enough
to share some of the review and maintenance load that you have been
carrying.

I still have a great deal to learn, but I have started to slow down, think
more carefully, and improve both the technical quality of my work and the
way I submit it.  The help I have received from the community means a lot
to me, and your patience and reviews were an important part of that.

I know none of this changes the workload that led you to step down, but
reading this made me realize again how much time and care you gave to all
of us.  I will be at LPC this year, and I hope I can thank you in person.

I will also be more disciplined about patch preparation, testing evidence,
email formatting, revision history, and the overall submission and review
workflow.  I hope that, over time, I can take on a useful share of the work
rather than add to it.

Thank you again, Lorenzo.  I will miss having you as a THP co-maintainer,
though I am very glad that you will still be around.

Thanks,
Lian