The 2.5 Kernel Tree And Alan Cox 247
Motor writes "It seems that (as everyone suspected), the 2.5 Linux kernel tree is close to opening. However, contrary to expectations, 2.4 will not be maintained by Alan Cox, but will instead be handled by Marcelo Tosatti. Thanks to Alan for all his hard work on 2.0 and 2.2."
Re:Alan Cox hijacked development (Score:2, Informative)
Ext3/JBD (Score:5, Informative)
RH doesn't get to decide what I feed to Linus,and Linus wouldn't listen if they did. XFS is 2.5 material certainly. JFS I don't know - Im watching it with great interest.
Alan
Re:VM is the reason? (Score:3, Informative)
He'd be free to rip out the Andrea VM if he wanted; however, I believe his concern is not about the technical aspects of the new VM but the principles involved in making deep changes to a stable kernel.
Re:Where did linus say this on lkml?? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:New Maintainer weblog? - karma whoring at 50.. (Score:4, Informative)
Here is some info on our new maintainer..
Marcelo works for Connectiva. He lives with "Rik". He looks like [conectiva.com.br]this.
His weblog is here. [advogato.org]
His "homepage" area is here [conectiva.com.br]
And I gotta say.. impressive to get that level of responsibility at his age..
Re:What about the diversity of the kernel team? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:What about the diversity of the kernel team? (Score:2, Informative)
But is this really a bad thing? I mean, don't get me wrong; Alan has been wonderful and instrumental to Linux going where it has gone. But the beauty and power of open source is the diversity of its developers. If Alan maintained all stable trees from now on, the kernel would certainly get incredible attention and development. However, it would be Alan's tree. Again, not that this is a bad thing. Yet, sometimes you need some new blood just to get that spark going again. Just my view on the whole situation.
Kudos to the whole team though. And thanks Alan for the great work. Good luck on the new endeavors.
His own words. (Score:2, Informative)