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

David Miller
2006-08-21T06:21:11Z

From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 00:05:02 +0100

> Ar Llu, 2006-08-21 am 00:30 +0200, ysgrifennodd Andrea Arcangeli:
> > To me an official 2.6.16-stable in the hands of the only guy who
> > proposed himself as maintainer, sounds worse than no stable tree at
> > all.
>
> 2.6.16-stable is in the hands of someone that Greg (2.6.17-stable, ex
> 2.6.16-stable, 2.6 head temporary chief maintainer) thinks is a good
> person to do the job. That sounds to me quite sensible selection
> criteria, and Adrian is certainly up to the job.

Totally agreed.

This voting idea is absolute nonsense.

There is a tree of trust, and responsibilities like this are
simply handed down.