A change of maintainership for linux-next
Date:
Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:40:50 +0000
Description:
Stephen Rothwell, who has maintained the kernel's linux-next integration
tree from its inception, has announced his
retirement from that role: I will be stepping down as Linux-Next maintainer
on Jan 16, 2026.
Mark Brown has generously volunteered to take up the challenge. He
has helped in the past filling in when I have been unavailable, so
hopefully knows what he is getting in to. I hope you will all
treat him with the same (or better) level of respect that I have
received. It has been a long but mostly interesting task and I hope
it has
been helpful to others. It seems a long time since I read Andrew
Morton's "I have a dream" email and decided that I could help out
there - little did I know what I was heading for. Over the last two decades or so, the kernel's development process has evolved
from an unorganized mess with irregular releases to a smooth machine with a
new release every nine or ten weeks. That would not have happened without linux-next; thanks are due to Stephen for helping to make the current
process possible.
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