From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752380AbZCKUiK (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:38:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751336AbZCKUh4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:37:56 -0400 Received: from po-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.252.156]:57107 "EHLO po-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750779AbZCKUhy convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:37:54 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=t0L5NRP54ohHFJMjDFQROxvw3ieEvXp9yocb5zdoRgUtBiHxO27jqIjr1QUsdFGMj/ epf1IXW8wRay7W+k/itWD4ACkNdEeHIBQLYnI6fWPKaSTRuVz6x0V3aDxwMAxDi3HaY9 UPnM6skXqaGm4gAGM2xZy3BIGdGng1iWNyUM0= MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: mtk.manpages@gmail.com In-Reply-To: <49B70A21.7070400@gmail.com> References: <49B70A21.7070400@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:37:52 +1300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [patch] MAINTAINERS: downgrade support for man-pages From: Michael Kerrisk To: Andrew Morton Cc: lkml , "linux-man@vger.kernel.org" , linux-api@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org [Looks as though vger didn't like my long CC list, and didn't carry the message to the lists, so resending a slightly edited version to just the lists.] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 1:47 PM Subject: [patch] MAINTAINERS: downgrade support for man-pages To: Andrew Morton Cc: lkml , Linus Torvalds , Jonathan Corbet , Davide Libenzi , Jim Zemlin , Randy Dunlap , Oleg Nesterov , Arnd Bergmann , Jeff Licquia , David Miller , Stephen Hemminger , Mats Wichmann , Roland McGrath , Ulrich Drepper , Petr Baudis , "H. Peter Anvin" , Theodore T'so , James Bottomley , Ulrich Drepper , Christoph Hellwig , Alain Portal , Greg KH , Andi Kleen , Matthew Wilcox , Andries Brouwer , hohndel@infradead.org, "linux-man@vger.kernel.org" , linux-api@vger.kernel.org Hi Andrew, Unfortunately, Linux Foundation funding for my work on man-pages/testing/doc under the auspices of the LF documentation fellowship ran out a short while ago (after earlier attempts to seek funding, only Google stepped forward with a bit of further funding for the position), so the patch below acknowledges something closer to reality. There will (probably very) soon be a further downgrade from "Maintained" to "Odd Fixes" or "Orphan", unless some funding miracle occurs.  So, if anyone is looking to become man-pages maintainer, there may soon be an opening (okay, don't trample me in the rush ;-).) Cheers, Michael diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 1c2ca1d..61aeb5a 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -1469,8 +1469,6 @@ L:        linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org  S:     Supported  DOCUMENTATION (/Documentation directory) -P:     Michael Kerrisk -M:     mtk.manpages@gmail.com  P:     Randy Dunlap  M:     rdunlap@xenotime.net  L:     linux-doc@vger.kernel.org @@ -2879,7 +2877,7 @@ P:        Michael Kerrisk  M:     mtk.manpages@gmail.com  W:     http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages  L:     linux-man@vger.kernel.org -S:     Supported +S:     Maintained  MARVELL LIBERTAS WIRELESS DRIVER  P:     Dan Williams -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git man-pages online: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online_pages.html Found a bug? http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html