From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1F443161320; Thu, 3 Apr 2025 11:27:31 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1743679653; cv=none; b=sg43c/vUDDz1flwvj2QTpgNW7D2jxDRiCfPXempVGDXM3utVPHbdaaNmH5lTTqXGOum+kjSznW2Ix9JxxY6oUiHn8aeexihJ0Jxr2SyK80L13reHry4uJ55QyYGXksnxcGEBjm1fC5JezK0YohvmuRiRvxyQOoFVPuyMCLHsQNA= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1743679653; c=relaxed/simple; bh=9H/RuHZhkwwqX0QP7nKfLhISSU6qrdULzbXx5qh9w10=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=EJoznmS3M4/N+js0nmCPs7HvAwM7XRggnK8/AiSQNWsW3bxmQYhWk78vSdpgSeUPgsc/iVmMKmLP9+dMEpVtgR1uJPsKlPB/ko3eL5hVuiPgPWrhSAQUgBs8Xca1GcQ/JT0RtzwyJyyZdUk9R7DsJsXc6mzL/K/j7J7+NO76+MY= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=PcWqeI5o; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="PcWqeI5o" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E71BBC4CEE3; Thu, 3 Apr 2025 11:27:29 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1743679651; bh=9H/RuHZhkwwqX0QP7nKfLhISSU6qrdULzbXx5qh9w10=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=PcWqeI5ok6kpIQF+b327W2fB6lk/09Gko6u7VHIU8DwiRdNK0IT/CsH2XK3FOavoh 8ikYIJp89usEeRxfvlNCHq2tjuCobchiy4innF2xjadreOgP0ajAiAQTnNyWVdyzkc r2NocFdS6hgZx4YTEWULpsH/5SbjRoHO1qe7eMeA6vgtLmTcHdjW0F+20O8emLjtEo VKQax2C/Rg9FfiLdrmNgncYRzIJ+CtBOS1F3GgZqjZ0OSkpS2ocAIVO2br+jkQK1Un ZTG4GQTkn3zSDvsj2kPJcg9iAE/OotHyqozxTofVLqr0YFP5UNIxOBd1R0RVW/8zIk 9aoN91j/jzRyg== Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2025 13:27:27 +0200 From: Christian Brauner To: Andreas Hindborg , Christoph Hellwig Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Breno Leitao , Joel Becker Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: configfs: add Andreas Hindborg as maintainer Message-ID: <20250403-sauer-himmel-df90d0e9047c@brauner> References: <87frix5dk3.fsf@kernel.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87frix5dk3.fsf@kernel.org> On Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 05:23:56PM +0100, Andreas Hindborg wrote: > Hi Christoph, > > "Christoph Hellwig" writes: > > > On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 05:45:30PM +0100, Andreas Hindborg wrote: > >> As recommended in plenary session at LSF/MM plenary session on March 25 2025. > >> Joel is no longer active in the community. > > > > I'm not sure who decided that, but that's an exceptionally offensive move. > > It was a recommendation given by several people in the plenary session I > had 10 AM local time on March 25 at LSF. There was agreement in the > sense that several people recommended this course action and nobody > objected. > > > Joel has helped actually reviewing configfs patches even when I as running > > the tree, and I explicitly confirmed with him that he is willing to > > maintain it alone when I dropped the maintainership. You've not even > > Ced him to tell him about how you force him out of the subsystem he > > created. > > I am deeply sorry for not Cc'ing Joel, that is a mistake. I did not do > it out of disrespect or ill intent, I simply did not think about it. > Thank you for correcting this, I appreciate that. > > I have sent emails to Joel at least 4 times since the first rust > configfs series was sent, and I have offered my assistance in > maintaining configfs if that is the reason of no response. There's no need to get upset. Several people pointed out that Joel Becker retired and since he hasn't responded this felt like the right thing to do. Just send a patch to add him back. I see no reason to not have Andreas step up to maintain it.