Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: remove myself as THP co-maintainer

[Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2026 at 08:43:16PM +0800, Lance Yang wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2026 at 12:31:09PM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) wrote:
> >Since it's 2026 :) I asked Claude to look at my time as THP co-maintainer:
> >
> >	~107,000 words of review across 948 emails (in 279 distinct
> >	threads), counting only prose you actually wrote — quoted text,
> >	signatures and attribution lines stripped. That's a full novel's
> >	worth of review commentary.
> >
> >	Along the way you handed out 194 Reviewed-by and 15 Acked-by tags,
> >	and your longest single review was 2,404 words (mTHP collapse
> >	support, v12 — the khugepaged/mTHP collapse saga accounts for most
> >	of your top-10 longest reviews).
> >
> >	Estimated review time: roughly 300–500 hours, centred around ~400
> >	(i.e. ~7 hours/week for 14 months).
> >
> >	1,615 THP-related emails in the window: 948 reviews of others'
> >	work, 278 replies on your own THP-touching series threads (~31k
> >	more words responding to review), 382 patch emails, and a handful
> >	of MAINTAINERS bits. Busiest months: March 2026 (131 review
> >	emails), June 2026 (113), August 2026 (111); quietest was December
> >	2025 (5).
> >
> >Think I can be happy with that!
>
> Aw, man ... I totally get needing to step back, but we can't let you
> disappear from THP that easily :) You've put a crazy amount of time
> into it, and your reviews and judgment have made a massive difference.
> We'd miss you badly.

Thanks I appreciate that :)

>
> Could we talk you into staying on as a reviewer for now? Zero pressure to
> keep up with everything or carry the maintainer load. Just hang around,
> jump in whenever you feel like it, and come straight back as a maintainer
> whenever life gives you the room.
>
> Seriously, Lorenzo, THP still needs you. Please stick around!

I'm not going anywhere in terms of upstream kernel - and as David suggested
- I am happy to be pinged on threads where my input would be helpful :)

But in general I'm dropping the R: for now as I feel it wouldn't be quite
correct to keep it, as I can't really give much time at all to THP, and it
wouldn't be fair for me to be listed but remain inactive.

I may very well revisit this in the future, but for the time being I think
this is the best way forwards.

Thanks again for the kind words, much appreciated! :)

>
> Thanks, Lance

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Cheers, Lorenzo