Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: configfs: add Andreas Hindborg as maintainer

From: Andreas Hindborg
Date: Fri Mar 28 2025 - 12:24:15 EST


Hi Christoph,

"Christoph Hellwig" <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 Joel is no longer active in the community.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.

Best regards,
Andreas Hindborg