Re: Deputy maintainer for powerpc

[Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 09:44:31 -0500
Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:

> 
> On Jul 4, 2008, at 1:02 AM, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> 
> > I'm going to be on vacation for the next two weeks, and it looks
> > highly likely that Linus will open the 2.6.27 merge window during that
> > time, so I'm appointing Ben Herrenschmidt as my deputy maintainer.
> > During the next two weeks, he'll be the person collecting together any
> > further powerpc-related commits that need to go upstream, and sending
> > pull requests to Linus as necessary.
> >
> > This is the start of a longer-term transition which will ultimately
> > result in me handing over the powerpc architecture maintainership to
> > Ben.  Because of various work commitments, this will be a gradual
> > transition taking probably around 6 months.
> >
> > Paul.
> 
> Ben, Do you have a tree that you'll be using to collect things in?

I hope it's the same tree for this merge window.

In the future, I hope the semantics of the various branches of the
new tree either stays the same, or comes with a detailed description of
what branch means what (assuming there is a new tree at some point).

josh