[ Thanks to Joe Barr
for this link. ]
“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)…”