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

From: Joel Becker
Date: Sat Apr 05 2025 - 16:29:46 EST


On Fri, Apr 04, 2025 at 10:42:29AM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 03, 2025 at 11:47:23PM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 03, 2025 at 01:27:27PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > > There's no need to get upset. Several people pointed out that Joel
> > > Becker retired and since he hasn't responded this felt like the right
> > > thing to do. Just send a patch to add him back. I see no reason to not
> > > have Andreas step up to maintain it.
> >
> > Removing someone just because they have retired feels odd, but hey who
> > am I to complain. I did reach out to him when giving maintainership
> > and he replied although it did indeed take a while.
>
> I mean, we can surely put Joel back in. My take would be to remove
> that person from the maintainer entry because people will get confused
> when they don't receive a reply. But I'm totally fine if we should leave
> Joel in.

Howdy folks,

I do apologize for my delayed responses. I try to review patches as I
find them, but I haven't yet set up a dedicated tree -- a bit out of
practice.

The Rust patches gave me pause. I have no context to review them --
even the little Rust I am familiar with looks nothing like the complex
stuff the kernel bindings are doing. For that part, all I can do is
hope someone other than I knows what the Rust should be doing.

Thanks,
Joel


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