Linux/PPC maintainer changing

Linux/PPC maintainer changing

[Cort Dougan]

Starting today, Paul Mackerras (paulus@samba.org) is taking over as
maintainer of the Linux/PPC 32-bit tree and will continue as the Linux/PPC
64-bit tree maintainer.

The stable and development trees (2.2 and 2.4) will be moving away from
the FSMLabs ftp/rsync/BitKeeper repository to the vger.kernel.org CVS
tree.  Changes should continue to flow into the main tree available from
kernel.org.

Re: Linux/PPC maintainer changing

[Paul Mackerras]

Cort has put in an enormous amount of time and effort into maintaining
the PowerPC port of Linux over the past 5 or 6 years, and I for one
would like to acknowledge that publicly and thank him for that.  It
has not always been an easy task, I know, because there are a wide
range of opinions within the PPC/Linux camp and Cort has been the man
on the spot to sort out the balance between the competing interests.
And I for one will miss the time, effort and resources he has put into
the infrastructure things such as the repository, web pages, ftp site
etc.

I would also like to thank FSM Labs for contributing the space and
bandwidth for the PPC/Linux repository over the last couple of years.

Paul.

Re: Linux/PPC maintainer changing

[Larry McVoy]

Add my voice to those saying "Thanks, Cort".  I'm not sure if everyone is
aware of the amount of work he's done, it's a lot.  We were aware of it
because he took a chance on early versions of BK and we worked through
many a late night problem with him; BK is certainly much better because
of Cort & the PPC team.

I think the job that Cort did is a tough job for anyone to do, it
involves a lot of different people and personalities and it is a pretty
much thankless job.

Anyway, the beer is on me next time we meet, Cort.  Thanks.
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Larry McVoy            	 lm at bitmover.com           http://www.bitmover.com/lm