Re: Change in security maintainer for a few weeks

[Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>]

On Thursday, June 05, 2014 11:59:11 PM Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Jun 2014, Greg KH wrote:
> > James has had to step back from doing kernel work for a few weeks, so
> > I've offered to step up and handle the security patches to get shuttled
> > to Linus for merging for a while.
> 
> As exactly this (working with active contributors to help co-maintain the
> subsystem) has been brought at the ksummit maling list, I am just curious
> whether noone else actively working in that area was willing to step up?
> 
> 	$ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --git -f security/
> 	James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com> (supporter:SECURITY SUBSYSTEM)
>    ...
> 
> If not, then I think this can be shown as a prime example why the problem
> of "non-substituability" of many maintainers is actually real.

Once several of us became aware that James was stepping away for a few weeks 
(I should mention this was not a planned absence and took most of us by 
surprise) we had a brief discussion off-list and several of us did offer to 
"step-up"; Serge had already created a repo and since he had pushed patches 
while James was away in the past it seemed a reasonable approach this time 
around.

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paul moore
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