New maintainers for the x86 architecture

New maintainers for the x86 architecture

Posted Oct 22, 2007 21:32 UTC (Mon) by iabervon (subscriber, #722)
In reply to: New maintainers for the x86 architecture by MisterIO
Parent article: New maintainers for the x86 architecture

But surely if he disagrees with the design of the subsystem, he shouldn't be expected to
maintain it. He's been perfectly gracious in stepping aside to let other people try to run
with the design they want to use, but it should be up to the people promoting a particular
design to take responsibility for making sure it works. If x86 were to turn out to be
unmaintainable and Andi were still in charge of it, it would be hard to tell if a maintainer
who liked the approach more would be able to make it work.

It just makes more sense in terms of aligning motivations if other people are in charge of
making it work, and Andi is simply an experienced developer.

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