Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to")

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

>>>>> "John" == John Meinel <address@hidden> writes:

    John> Actually, I believe Tom is working hard with a couple other
    John> maintainers to distribute the project lead.
[...]

    John> It was back when James Blackwell was arguing with Tom about
    John> who was controlling mainline.

It surely goes back much farther than that; it was about a year ago
that Tom posted a couple about "looking for people to play a little
game" (ie, act as lieutenants/patch queue filters), and I'm sure he'd
been thinking about it systematically for some time before that.

Furthermore, about two years ago he (inadvertantly) delegated
maintenance to Walter Landry for a few months.  It turned out that
Walter wasn't the right guy, but even so I got the impression Tom was
ready at that time to delegate substantial decision-making authority
to the right person.

What we're seeing now is the formal implementation of the fruits of a
long-term process.

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