Re: Adrian Bunk is now taking over the 2.6.16-stable branch

Greg KH
2006-08-06T04:56:21Z

On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 02:46:34AM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 01:00:17AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 09:43:06PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > > On 8/3/06, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > > >This is just a notice to everyone that Adrian is going to now be taking
> > > >over the 2.6.16-stable kernel branch, for him to maintain for as long as
> > > >he wants to.
> > >
> > > Adrian, could you provide a bit of rationale as to why you want to do
> > > this? I'm just curious.
> >
> > A long-term maintained stable series was missing in the current
> > development model.
> >
> > The 2.6 series itself is theoretically a stable series, but the amount
> > of regressions is too big for some users.
>
> Greg is electing new official maintainers

Greg didn't "elect" anyone, Adrian volunteered to maintain something
that had been dropped by the -stable developers and no one else was
going to maintain.

> , but Greg is doing other
> weird things as well:
>
> http://www.cpushare.com/blog/andrea/article/42/

I'm only repeating what a whole lot of lawyers told me, nothing else.

thanks,

greg k-h