On Thu, Jun 23, 2022 at 09:56:34AM +0000, George Dunlap wrote: > > > > On 23 Jun 2022, at 08:43, Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com> wrote: > > > > On 09.06.2022 17:33, Jan Beulich wrote: > >> While mail hasn't been bouncing, Daniel has not been responding to patch > >> submissions or otherwise interacting with the community for several > >> years. Move maintainership to THE REST in kind of an unusual way, with > >> the goal to avoid > >> - orphaning the component, > >> - repeating all THE REST members here, > >> - removing the entry altogether. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com> > >> --- > >> We hope this to be transient, with a new maintainer to be established > >> rather sooner than later. > >> > >> I realize the way I'm expressing this may upset scripts/*_maintainer*.pl, > >> so I'd welcome any better alternative suggestion. > > > > Two weeks have passed. May I ask for an ack so this can go in? > > I’m happy to give you my Ack re the maintainership change, but I’m not > qualified to comment on whether it will screw up the get_maintainer script. > Perhaps it would be better to send a v2 patch, proposing Daniel Smith as a > replacement, to avoid the question of the script entirely.
Maybe we should modify the script so that any sections that don't have any Maintainer assigned (no M:) fallback into the rest if that's not the case already? Thanks, Roger.