Re: drivers/char/random.c needs a (new) maintainer

From: Marcelo Henrique Cerri <marcelo.cerri@canonical.com>
To: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Cc: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
	duwe@lst.de, "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Stephan Müller" <smueller@chronox.de>,
	"Willy Tarreau" <w@1wt.eu>,
	"Linux Crypto Mailing List" <linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Nicolai Stange" <nstange@suse.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
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	"Ahmed S. Darwish" <darwish.07@gmail.com>,
	"Matthew Garrett" <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>,
	"Vito Caputo" <vcaputo@pengaru.com>,
	"Andreas Dilger" <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>,
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	"William Jon McCann" <mccann@jhu.edu>,
	zhangjs <zachary@baishancloud.com>,
	"Andy Lutomirski" <luto@kernel.org>,
	"Florian Weimer" <fweimer@redhat.com>,
	"Lennart Poettering" <mzxreary@0pointer.de>,
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	"Julia Lawall" <julia.lawall@inria.fr>,
	"Dan Carpenter" <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
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	simo@redhat.com
Subject: Re: drivers/char/random.c needs a (new) maintainer
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2020 10:25:19 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201218132519.kj3nz7swsx7vvlr5@valinor.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHmME9pksS8ec17RAwCNJimt4B0xZgd3qYHUPnaT4Bj4CF7n0A@mail.gmail.com>

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Hi, Ted and Jason.

Any updates on that?

I don't believe Torsten's concerns are simply about *applying* patches
but more about these long periods of radio silence. That kills
collaboration and disengage people. More than simply reviewing patches
I would expect a maintainer to give directions and drive the
community. Asking Jason to review Nicolai's patches was a step towards
that, but I believe we still could benefit from better communication.

Besides Nicolai's RFC, are you also planning to take another look at
Stephan's patches?

Thank you for your attention.

On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 12:42:36PM +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 5:56 PM Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
> > patches this cycle.  One thing that would help me is if folks
> > (especially Jason, if you would) could start with a detailed review of
> > Nicolai's patches.
> 
> Sure, I'll take a look.

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Regards,
Marcelo

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