LWN: Comments on "The 2.6.0 "must-fix" list"

Who will be the 2.6.0 maintainer?

MikeDiack — 2003-05-01T12:03:27+00:00

I'd have to agree with coriordan.
Alan Cox has been far and away the best of the kernel maintainers
in the 7 years I've been using Linux, in terms of timeliness,
delivering fixes that are well documented and understood,
and just being plain old approachable.

Mike

Will Andrew Morton be the 2.6 Maintainer?

rusty — 2003-05-01T07:06:33+00:00

Hopefully. It'll be a shame to lose him from 2.7, but damn he's a good influence, and would be a great stable maintainer.

Of course, he's a fellow Australian, as well, making the choice obvious.

Rusty.

Will Andrew Morton be the 2.6 Maintainer?

alan — 2003-05-01T01:03:34+00:00

P.S: Before anyone asks, I am NOT alan cox.

Will Andrew Morton be the 2.6 Maintainer?

alan — 2003-05-01T01:02:38+00:00

I fully expect akpm to be the 2.6 maintainer. He's been assuming some of the responsibilities of the part way before now.

Tail lkml for a while,.. he has one of the more solid understandings of how everything works now, he actively keeps up with change and a lot of new developments come through his mm tree, such as objrmap and other mm fixes, cfq and as IO schedulers, interactivity scheduler adjustments, ext3 developments like htree, the shared pagetables patch that probably won't make it in 2.6.0 was tried out in -mm, and a lot of ppc64, irq, and other bugfixes and errata come through the -mm tree. The -ac branch is mostly bugfixes and ports of old drivers to take advantage of the services in the new kernel.

If this were FreeBSD, akpm would have my vote for core.

Will Andrew Morton be the 2.6 Maintainer?

neilbrown — 2003-04-30T23:58:26+00:00

Linus mentioned at linux.conf.au 2003 that Andrew was expected to be the 2.6 maintainer. I think there were un-resolved issues concerning his funding (or something like that) so it wasn't a definite thing, but Linus' seemed to imply that it was highly probable.

He certainly seems to be acting the part already!!

Will Andrew Morton be the 2.6 Maintainer?

coriordan — 2003-04-30T23:02:08+00:00

Anyone who's been using GNU/Linux for more than 4 years would probably agree that Alan Cox was the best maintainer of a stable series in kernel history.

Am I wrong?

Cox's kernels were ultra reliable and his Release Notes were excellent. I really hope he takes up the 2.6 series.

Ciaran O'Riordan

Will Andrew Morton be the 2.6 Maintainer?

TheOneKEA — 2003-04-30T21:06:05+00:00

Perhaps. Marcelo may still be busy with 2.4; Linus will prolly concentrate
on 2.7, the fork maintainers will each have their own trees, so it's a possibility. If more e-mails like this appear, he's prolly been pegged.

Will Andrew Morton be the 2.6 Maintainer?

ctg — 2003-04-30T20:28:45+00:00

This is the short of info I would like to see from a Kernel Maintainer..

And I do think that Andrew would make an excellent one...