Recently releasing the 2.4.33-rc3 kernel, Marcelo Tosatti [interview] also announced a new 2.4 Linux kernel maintainer, "Willy Tarreau has stepped up to maintain the mainline v2.4 tree, and will do so starting from v2.4.34. He has devoted great effort to help maintenance for the past few years. His -hotfix tree is quite popular amongst v2.4 users, for instance. I feel very confident in his competence for the job, knowing his good common sense and great technical/communication skills." Willy began maintaining his -hf patchset against the stable 2.4 Linux kernel in February of 2005 [story].

In response to Marcelo's announcement, Willy replied, "hmmm... Like I once told you, I felt like you were trying to sell me your car, but you seem to have maintained it in very good state so I am confident it will not break after a few miles. I still hope that if I have any problem with it, you will come with your breakdown truck to rescue me :-) I hope I will get criticisms if I do things wrong. It's frustrating to work without feedback (either positive or negative)."

From: Marcelo Tosatti [email blocked]
To:  linux-kernel, Willy Tarreau [email blocked]
Subject: Linux v2.4.33-rc3 (and a new v2.4 maintainer)
Date:	Thu, 27 Jul 2006 18:30:19 -0300

Hi,

Here goes the third (and hopefully last) release candidate of v2.4.33.

It contains a fix for CVE-2006-2935 (locally exploitable typo in DVD
code), ethtool oopses and an ext3 block bitmap leakage issue.

Willy Tarreau has stepped up to maintain the mainline v2.4 tree, and
will do so starting from v2.4.34.

He has devoted great effort to help maintenance for the past few years.
His -hotfix tree is quite popular amongst v2.4 users, for instance.

I feel very confident in his competence for the job, knowing his good
common sense and great technical/communication skills.

Thanks Willy!


Summary of changes from v2.4.33-rc2 to v2.4.33-rc3
============================================

Andreas Haumer:
      [PATCH-2.4] Typo in cdrom.c

Kirill Korotaev:
      EXT3: ext3 block bitmap leakage

Marcelo Tosatti:
      Change VERSION to 2.4.33-rc3

Willy Tarreau:
      ethtool: two oopses in ethtool_set_coalesce() and ethtool_set_pauseparam()



From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Subject: Re: Linux v2.4.33-rc3 (and a new v2.4 maintainer)
Date:	Fri, 28 Jul 2006 06:49:39 +0200

Hi Marcelo,

On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 06:30:19PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
 
> Willy Tarreau has stepped up to maintain the mainline v2.4 tree, and
> will do so starting from v2.4.34.
> 
> He has devoted great effort to help maintenance for the past few years.
> His -hotfix tree is quite popular amongst v2.4 users, for instance.
> 
> I feel very confident in his competence for the job, knowing his good
> common sense and great technical/communication skills.
> 
> Thanks Willy!

Hmmm... Like I once told you, I felt like you were trying to sell me
your car, but you seem to have maintained it in very good state so I
am confident it will not break after a few miles. I still hope that
if I have any problem with it, you will come with your breakdown
truck to rescue me :-)

I hope I will get criticisms if I do things wrong. It's frustrating
to work without feedback (either positive or negative).

Best regards,
Willy

• Archive of above thread
• KernelTrap interview with Marcelo Tosatti