Re: Change in security maintainer for a few weeks

[Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>]

On 6/6/2014 8:23 AM, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> Quoting Casey Schaufler (casey@schaufler-ca.com):
>> On 6/5/2014 9:42 PM, Serge Hallyn wrote:
>>> Quoting Greg KH (gregkh@linuxfoundation.org):
>>>> On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 06:39:09PM -0400, Paul Moore wrote:
>>>>> 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.
>>>> That's great, as the communication around this has not been very much
>>>> (an non-existant on the subsystem mailing list) I was not aware of it.
>>>>
>>>> If Serge wants to do this, and as he has been the stand-in for James in
>>>> the past, I have _no_ objection to this at all.
>>>>
>>>> Serge, feel free to resend your patches to Linus if he doesn't pick them
>>>> up in a few days, with the information that you are doing this in
>>>> James's absence for a while.
>>> Will do (and wil cc: lsm).
>>>
>>>> So, that was easy, I don't have to do this at all, great.
>>>>
>>>> greg k-h
>> How can I verify that the pull James accepted from me is
>> moving forward somehow? Or, if it isn't, where does it go now?
> You can see it at
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/sergeh/linux-security.git/log/security/smack?h=serge-next-1
> As Greg suggested if Linus doesn't pull it in a few days I will resend
> the pull request.
>
Looks great. Thanks.