Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 21:52:34 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: Adrian Bunk is now taking over the 2.6.16-stable branch
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On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 02:46:34AM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 01:00:17AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 09:43:06PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > > On 8/3/06, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > > >This is just a notice to everyone that Adrian is going to now be taking
> > > >over the 2.6.16-stable kernel branch, for him to maintain for as long as
> > > >he wants to.
> > > 
> > > Adrian, could you provide a bit of rationale as to why you want to do
> > > this?  I'm just curious.
> > 
> > A long-term maintained stable series was missing in the current 
> > development model.
> > 
> > The 2.6 series itself is theoretically a stable series, but the amount 
> > of regressions is too big for some users.
> 
> Greg is electing new official maintainers

Greg didn't "elect" anyone, Adrian volunteered to maintain something
that had been dropped by the -stable developers and no one else was
going to maintain.

> , but Greg is doing other
> weird things as well:
> 
>        http://www.cpushare.com/blog/andrea/article/42/

I'm only repeating what a whole lot of lawyers told me, nothing else.

thanks,

greg k-h
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