On Tue, Nov 14, 2000, Dunlap, Randy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2000-November-14 > > To the Linux-USB community: > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Intel has some other Linux areas that they would like for me > to work on, so I need to transfer the USB maintainer role to > someone else. > > Linus says that it's my job to name the next maintainer, > so I'm happy to announce that effective immediately, the > Linux-USB maintainer is Johannes Erdfelt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). > I am confident that Johannes will do a fine job as the > USB maintainer. Please give him your support just as you > gave it to me (and indeed to the entire Linux-USB project). > > We'll have to see if he also wants to take charge of the > Slashdot Beanie Award stuff. He's welcome to it if he > wants it. TBD. :) > > I've had a wonderful experience being the Linux-USB > maintainer and I've enjoyed working with all of you. > I'll still be around, working on USB and some other > Linux things. > > I'm especially thankful to Johannes, Greg Kroah-Hartman, and > Vojtech Pavlik (SuSE) for substituting for me when I traveled, > and to David Brownell, Pat Beirne (Corel), and Johannes > for their participation in the USB PlugFest in August/2000. I'd like to also thank Randy for all of the work he has done for the Linux USB project. I don't intend to handle the job much differently than Randy has. It seems to have worked quite well. Here's a patch to the MAINTAINERS file against 2.4.0-test11-pre5 to "officially" make the change. JE
--- linux-2.4.0-test11-pre5.orig/MAINTAINERS Tue Nov 14 14:00:07 2000 +++ linux-2.4.0-test11-pre5/MAINTAINERS Tue Nov 14 14:03:41 2000 @@ -1245,8 +1245,9 @@ S: Maintained USB SUBSYSTEM -P: Randy Dunlap -M: [EMAIL PROTECTED] +P: Johannes Erdfelt +M: [EMAIL PROTECTED] +M: [EMAIL PROTECTED] L: [EMAIL PROTECTED] L: [EMAIL PROTECTED] W: http://www.linux-usb.org
