----- Original Message -----
> From: "Vasu Dev" <[email protected]>
> To: "Johannes Thumshirn" <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2016 4:38:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [Open-FCoE] open fcoe maintainership change
> 
> On Mon, 2016-06-20 at 11:49 +0200, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 09:56:12AM -0700, Vasu Dev wrote:
> > > Intel enabled open-fcoe support in the kernel back in 2007, since
> > > then
> > > it has maintained that code as an open source project hosted at
> > > open-
> > > fcoe.org and at the OSU Open Source Lab. Today, the software
> > > enabling
> > > FCoE is very mature and self-sufficient. Due to the maturity of the
> > > project, a less active "hands on" approach is needed by Intel in
> > > its
> > > maintenance. As a result, Intel is moving away from actively
> > > maintaining the project including the mailing list, git
> > > repositories,
> > > and project maintainership.
> > > 
> > > If someone from the open-fcoe community with a confirmed
> > > contribution
> > > history comes forward with a desire to pick up the mantle of
> > > maintainership, then please reply to this message and I can pass on
> > > maintainership to them. Otherwise open-fcoe will lack a current
> > > maintainer when I remove my name from the MAINTAINERS file, and it
> > > will
> > > become an orphaned project.
> > 
> > A fair coin toss between Hannes and me decided I'll volunteer to take
> > over the
> > maintainership of open-fcoe.
> > 
> > If noone disagrees with that, of cause.
> > 
> Good and works for me, I'll send offlist open-fcoe.org access info.
> Go ahead and update maintainer file with your contact replacing my
> name.
> 
> //Vasudev
> 
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Vasu, Many thanks for all your work and I know its appreciated by all concerned.
Johannes, many thanks for picking this up. We will all help as much as we can.

Regards
Laurence
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