The 2.5 Kernel Tree And Alan Cox

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."

Comments

Ext3/JBD

[Alan Cox]

The ext3 stuff is scheduled for merging soon. The VM is simply more important, and as of 2.4.14pre7 basically works (there are a couple of corner cases left where it fails) - and is much faster than the older Riel VM. That was a concluded experiment anyway

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?

[sydb]

Now that's just silly.

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??

[Alan Cox]

I wanted to work more on other stuff. We both felt Marcelo was a great choice and Marcelo wanted to be 2.4 maintainer

Re:New Maintainer weblog? - karma whoring at 50..

[iamsure]

Since you asked, and everyone else will want to know..

Here is some info on our new maintainer..

Marcelo works for Connectiva. He lives with "Rik". He looks like this.

His weblog is here.
His "homepage" area is here

And I gotta say.. impressive to get that level of responsibility at his age..

Re:What about the diversity of the kernel team?

[puetzk]

Read his actual comment (like anyone on /. ever does that anymore). He's not getting out of kernel development, he's just not maintaining the stable series this time around. He says he's gonna be working on other kernel projects - a.k.a., he wants his shot at the fun in the devel tree :-)