Maintainer != Contributor
Maintainer != Contributor
Posted Feb 25, 2025 21:39 UTC (Tue) by PeeWee (guest, #175777)Parent article: A change in maintenance for the kernel's DMA-mapping layer
Christoph Hellwig only stepped down as a maintainer, which does not necessarily mean he will cease all contribution activity. In this particular case it might but that remains to be seen, so already predicting that his contributions will be missed, may be premature.
Posted Feb 26, 2025 13:26 UTC (Wed)
by daroc (editor, #160859)
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Maintainer != Contributor
I believe that Jon meant that his contributions to the maintenance of DMA would be missed; even if he continues contributing, he certainly won't be doing more of the work of a maintainer if he's not a maintainer any more.