"Given Linus Torvalds's recent leave of absence from Transmeta to take a full-time position at OSDL to work on Linux kernel development, and with the approaching release of Linux 2.6, I thought now would be a good time to quiz Torvalds by email. As always, Torvalds was gracious and forthcoming in his replies...
"NewsForge: One news report I read suggested that you will be turning 2.6 kernel maintenance over to Andrew Morton a lot earlier in the cycle than usual. Was that report accurate?
"Torvalds: Yes. Historically I've turned things over after I'm happy with the thing, i.e. it takes a while. With Andrew, we've already been working pretty closely for the last few months anyway, so we're going to try a new approach: he'll be the maintainer from the very get-go, and I'll be as a co-maintainer.
"We'll do it gradually, i.e. try to move him more and more into the maintenance position starting with the pre-releases (probably this week)..."
