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

[Samuel Bronson <naesten@gmail.com>]

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.