Stepping down as a Patchwork maintainer

[Stephen Finucane]

On Wed, 2022-06-29 at 23:30 +1000, Daniel Axtens wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I think it's time for me to officially step down from Patchwork maintainership.
> 
> I've been in a new job for 3 months now, and this company doesn't use
> mailing lists for development. So I'm no longer using Patchwork as a
> patch submitter, and the low volume of patches to the Patchwork mailing
> list meant I never used it very much as a maintainer either. I think
> that someone who doesn't use a piece of software probably shouldn't be a
> maintainer of that software. So, with some sadness, it's time for me to
> relinquish the role.
> 
> Additionally, the change in job means I no longer have any excuses to
> use work time for Patchwork, and my free time continues to be very
> limited. I think it's better for everyone if I don't stay in a role that
> I'm not meaningfully able to keep up with.
> 
> I'll do my best to reply to Patchwork mail where I'm personally listed
> in the To:, but I'm probably going to (continue to) be pretty bad at
> responding to mail to the list generally. I'm happy to keep my commit
> bit for as long as Stephen and any future maintainers deem appropriate.
> 
> Stephen, thanks for inviting me to the maintainership and for the trust
> you've placed in me. I wish you all the best for the future of
> Patchwork!
> 
> To our long-suffering Patchwork administrators at kernel.org and
> ozlabs.org, and to the smaller ones around the web - thank you for
> trusting us and apologies for the regular migration dramas! Thanks
> especially to jk for kicking off the patchwork project. Finally, to all
> our contributors: thank you, you have in a very real way made Patchwork
> what it is today.

Thanks for your help these last few years, Daniel!

Stephen

> Kind regards,
> Daniel