Re: ethtool needs a new maintainer

[Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>]

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On Thu, 2016-06-30 at 14:27 -0500, Jorge Alberto Garcia wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 1:15 PM, John W. Linville
> <linville@tuxdriver.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 09:51:47AM -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 06:11:41PM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > > I've become steadily less enthusiastic and less responsive as a
> > > > maintainer over the past year or so.  I no longer work on networking
> > > > regularly, so it takes a lot more time to get into the right state of
> > > > mind to think about ethtool code, while I have other demands on my time
> > > > that tend to take priority.
> > > > 
> > > > So, I would like to find a new maintainer to take over as soon as
> > > > possible.  Ideally the new maintainer would have previous contributions
> > > > to ethtool and an existing account on kernel.org so that they can push
> > > > to the git repository and the home page.  But neither of those is
> > > > essential.  Please reply if you're interested.
> > > 
> > > I would like to take this responsibility. My previous contributions
> > > to ethtool are meager, but I think my skills and interests are suited
> > > to the task.  Plus, I already have a kernel.org account... :-)
> > 
> > Are there any other takers?  Or is this a done deal?
> > 
> 
> hi guys !, any link to a bugzilla  / patchwork  ?

There's nothing as organised as that, though it might be possible to
add categories for ethtool on <https://bugzilla.kernel.org> and
<https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/netdev/>.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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