From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 17:47:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 17:47:44 -0500 Received: from nat-su-33.valinux.com ([198.186.202.33]:17006 "EHLO phenoxide.engr.valinux.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 17:47:29 -0500 Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 14:17:26 -0800 From: Johannes Erdfelt To: torvalds@transmeta.com Cc: linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] [announce] New Maintainer Message-ID: <20001114141726.D897@valinux.com> In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5" X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from randy.dunlap@intel.com on Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 07:35:27AM -0800 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Tue, Nov 14, 2000, Dunlap, Randy wrote: > 2000-November-14 > > To the Linux-USB community: > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Intel has some other Linux areas that they would like for me > to work on, so I need to transfer the USB maintainer role to > someone else. > > Linus says that it's my job to name the next maintainer, > so I'm happy to announce that effective immediately, the > Linux-USB maintainer is Johannes Erdfelt (jerdfelt@valinux.com). > I am confident that Johannes will do a fine job as the > USB maintainer. Please give him your support just as you > gave it to me (and indeed to the entire Linux-USB project). > > We'll have to see if he also wants to take charge of the > Slashdot Beanie Award stuff. He's welcome to it if he > wants it. TBD. :) > > I've had a wonderful experience being the Linux-USB > maintainer and I've enjoyed working with all of you. > I'll still be around, working on USB and some other > Linux things. > > I'm especially thankful to Johannes, Greg Kroah-Hartman, and > Vojtech Pavlik (SuSE) for substituting for me when I traveled, > and to David Brownell, Pat Beirne (Corel), and Johannes > for their participation in the USB PlugFest in August/2000. I'd like to also thank Randy for all of the work he has done for the Linux USB project. I don't intend to handle the job much differently than Randy has. It seems to have worked quite well. Here's a patch to the MAINTAINERS file against 2.4.0-test11-pre5 to "officially" make the change. JE --FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="usb-maintainer.patch" --- linux-2.4.0-test11-pre5.orig/MAINTAINERS Tue Nov 14 14:00:07 2000 +++ linux-2.4.0-test11-pre5/MAINTAINERS Tue Nov 14 14:03:41 2000 @@ -1245,8 +1245,9 @@ S: Maintained USB SUBSYSTEM -P: Randy Dunlap -M: randy.dunlap@intel.com +P: Johannes Erdfelt +M: jerdfelt@valinux.com +M: johannes@erdfelt.com L: linux-usb-users@lists.sourceforge.net L: linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net W: http://www.linux-usb.org --FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/