From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver•com>
To: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent•org.uk>
Cc: netdev <netdev@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ethtool needs a new maintainer
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2016 11:58:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160705155825.GB2769@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1467652728.12588.42.camel@decadent.org.uk>
On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 07:18:48PM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-06-27 at 09:51 -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 06:11:41PM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > I've become steadily less enthusiastic and less responsive as a
> > > maintainer over the past year or so. I no longer work on networking
> > > regularly, so it takes a lot more time to get into the right state of
> > > mind to think about ethtool code, while I have other demands on my time
> > > that tend to take priority.
> > >
> > > So, I would like to find a new maintainer to take over as soon as
> > > possible. Ideally the new maintainer would have previous contributions
> > > to ethtool and an existing account on kernel.org so that they can push
> > > to the git repository and the home page. But neither of those is
> > > essential. Please reply if you're interested.
> >
> > I would like to take this responsibility. My previous contributions
> > to ethtool are meager, but I think my skills and interests are suited
> > to the task. Plus, I already have a kernel.org account... :-)
> [...]
>
> It was a tough choice, but I'm pleased to accept your offer. :-)
>
> I'll ask for the permissions to be updated accordingly.
>
> Ben.
Awesome, thanks. And, of course, thank you for your service to the
community as ethtool maintainer for the past several (5+) years!
John
--
John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-05 16:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-26 15:59 ethtool 4.6 released Ben Hutchings
2016-06-26 16:11 ` ethtool needs a new maintainer Ben Hutchings
2016-06-27 13:51 ` John W. Linville
2016-06-30 18:15 ` John W. Linville
2016-06-30 19:27 ` Jorge Alberto Garcia
2016-06-30 19:32 ` Ben Hutchings
[not found] ` <CAPfrtUce=xzHystAoMRth4HEKhZtSj629f07R-t-dsq5=9q0-g@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <CAPfrtUeQuKiHAejZmhYORUh+1ZrD0QnAJ4PszRi++O-+dindoA@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <CAPfrtUeYwu8hj_ZNvp97_=v1hFuNBNPTG+Rfct644aTRh=JBog@mail.gmail.com>
2016-06-30 21:51 ` John W. Linville
2016-07-04 17:38 ` Ben Hutchings
2016-06-30 22:12 ` John Fastabend
2016-07-01 18:31 ` Andy Gospodarek
2016-07-01 19:33 ` David Miller
[not found] ` <CAD=hENfD=cwAidNe1+kspzUtUzwk3QqQE8GWF7zdhrKogPt-=A@mail.gmail.com>
2016-07-04 18:00 ` Ben Hutchings
2016-07-04 14:24 ` Jiri Pirko
2016-07-04 17:18 ` Ben Hutchings
2016-07-05 15:58 ` John W. Linville [this message]
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