From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
"LKML" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Jessica Yu <jeyu@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PULL] modules: begin maintainer transition
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 11:57:44 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161028115744.4dc24f2a@lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bmy856wo.fsf@rustcorp.com.au>
On Wed, 26 Oct 2016 10:16:15 +1030
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> wrote:
> Being a Linux kernel maintainer has been my proudest professional
> accomplishment, spanning the last 19 years. But now we have a surfeit
> of excellent hackers, and I can hand this over without regret.
So somebody needs to say this, I can't be the only one thinking it...
Thanks, Rusty, for all you did over all those years. The technical work
was great, but what you did to make the community a more welcoming,
interesting, and fun place was just as important. We'll miss you around
here!
jon
P.S. I will admit that I'm still annoyed at how you took all the
profanity out of the early kernel docs.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-28 17:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-25 23:46 [PULL] modules: begin maintainer transition Rusty Russell
2016-10-27 21:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-10-27 23:00 ` Rusty Russell
2016-10-27 23:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-10-28 17:23 ` Jessica Yu
2016-10-28 17:57 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
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