Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S942379AbcJ1R5v (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Oct 2016 13:57:51 -0400 Received: from tex.lwn.net ([70.33.254.29]:44686 "EHLO vena.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S941855AbcJ1R5r (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Oct 2016 13:57:47 -0400 Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 11:57:44 -0600 From: Jonathan Corbet To: Rusty Russell Cc: "Linus Torvalds" , "LKML" , Jessica Yu Subject: Re: [PULL] modules: begin maintainer transition Message-ID: <20161028115744.4dc24f2a@lwn.net> In-Reply-To: <87bmy856wo.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> References: <87bmy856wo.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> Organization: LWN.net X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.14.0 (GTK+ 2.24.31; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 689 Lines: 17 On Wed, 26 Oct 2016 10:16:15 +1030 Rusty Russell 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.