Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753050AbaFEWj1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jun 2014 18:39:27 -0400 Received: from mail-qa0-f48.google.com ([209.85.216.48]:38619 "EHLO mail-qa0-f48.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752527AbaFEWjN (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jun 2014 18:39:13 -0400 From: Paul Moore To: Jiri Kosina Cc: Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, "Serge E. Hallyn" Subject: Re: Change in security maintainer for a few weeks Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 18:39:09 -0400 Message-ID: <4426926.gIRHbeKnmD@sifl> User-Agent: KMail/4.13.1 (Linux/3.14.4-gentoo; KDE/4.13.1; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: <20140605183050.GA5054@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 (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. -- paul moore www.paul-moore.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/