Deputy maintainer for powerpc

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Jul 8 00:44:31 EST 2008


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?

- k



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