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Roger Gammans <roger@computer-surgery.co.uk>:
> It's entirley possible the problem will solve itself 
> when/if people like myself who hang around the edge of 
> kernel dev , find their favourite piece of kernel has
> no maintainer - and volunteer. 
> 
> So Eric solution may get new maintainers to appear for orphaned code
> as 'if by magic'
> 
> Alternatively not, of course.

This is part of my intention.
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		<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>

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