Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: configfs: add Andreas Hindborg as maintainer
From: Christian Brauner
Date: Fri Apr 04 2025 - 04:43:29 EST
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.