Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751331AbWHVH1M (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Aug 2006 03:27:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751335AbWHVH1L (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Aug 2006 03:27:11 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:724 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751331AbWHVH1K (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Aug 2006 03:27:10 -0400 X-Authenticated: #428038 Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 09:27:05 +0200 From: Matthias Andree To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: David Miller , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, greg@kroah.com, bunk@stusta.de, 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 Message-ID: <20060822072704.GA632@merlin.emma.line.org> Mail-Followup-To: Andrea Arcangeli , David Miller , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, greg@kroah.com, bunk@stusta.de, jwboyer@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org References: <20060806045234.GA28849@kroah.com> <20060820223046.GB10011@opteron.random> <1156115102.4051.79.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060820.232121.59475829.davem@davemloft.net> <20060821093538.GG10011@opteron.random> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060821093538.GG10011@opteron.random> X-PGP-Key: http://home.pages.de/~mandree/keys/GPGKEY.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-15) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 990 Lines: 21 Andrea Arcangeli schrieb am 2006-08-21: > I beg to remind you why Marcelo was picked, not only for his skills, > but also because he was so universally friendly, and easy to talk > with. I couldn't imagine Marcelo wanting to hurt anyone. To me that's > important, I could never disagree with the Marcelo pick. But this is > basically the opposite in my view. A maintainer needs qualities that > go beyond technical skills. I think it's Greg's fault of course, I'm > not blaming anybody else, but this clearly shows that the tree of > trust has its limits, hence I'd like a different system to elect the > new maintainers that has a better chance to work. I still liked your semi-technical reasons better than the personal. -- Matthias Andree - 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/