Re: Change in security maintainer for a few weeks

["Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>]

Quoting Casey Schaufler (casey@schaufler-ca.com):
> On 6/5/2014 9:42 PM, Serge Hallyn wrote:
> > Quoting Greg KH (gregkh@linuxfoundation.org):
> >> On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 06:39:09PM -0400, Paul Moore wrote:
> >>> On Thursday, June 05, 2014 11:59:11 PM Jiri Kosina wrote:
> >>>> On Thu, 5 Jun 2014, Greg KH wrote:
> >>>>> James has had to step back from doing kernel work for a few weeks, so
> >>>>> I've offered to step up and handle the security patches to get shuttled
> >>>>> to Linus for merging for a while.
> >>>> As exactly this (working with active contributors to help co-maintain the
> >>>> subsystem) has been brought at the ksummit maling list, I am just curious
> >>>> whether noone else actively working in that area was willing to step up?
> >>>>
> >>>> 	$ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --git -f security/
> >>>> 	James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com> (supporter:SECURITY SUBSYSTEM)
> >>>>    ...
> >>>>
> >>>> If not, then I think this can be shown as a prime example why the problem
> >>>> of "non-substituability" of many maintainers is actually real.
> >>> Once several of us became aware that James was stepping away for a few weeks 
> >>> (I should mention this was not a planned absence and took most of us by 
> >>> surprise) we had a brief discussion off-list and several of us did offer to 
> >>> "step-up"; Serge had already created a repo and since he had pushed patches 
> >>> while James was away in the past it seemed a reasonable approach this time 
> >>> around.
> >> That's great, as the communication around this has not been very much
> >> (an non-existant on the subsystem mailing list) I was not aware of it.
> >>
> >> If Serge wants to do this, and as he has been the stand-in for James in
> >> the past, I have _no_ objection to this at all.
> >>
> >> Serge, feel free to resend your patches to Linus if he doesn't pick them
> >> up in a few days, with the information that you are doing this in
> >> James's absence for a while.
> > Will do (and wil cc: lsm).
> >
> >> So, that was easy, I don't have to do this at all, great.
> >>
> >> greg k-h
> 
> How can I verify that the pull James accepted from me is
> moving forward somehow? Or, if it isn't, where does it go now?

You can see it at
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/sergeh/linux-security.git/log/security/smack?h=serge-next-1
As Greg suggested if Linus doesn't pull it in a few days I will resend
the pull request.