People will have been wondering about the 2.4 stable kernel progression. Various bizarre rumours in Byte seem to have generated a lot of discussion and rumour. Now that the people concerned are all agreed its time to put the entire roadmap out and make it clear.
Linus will be releasing a 2.4.14 and probably a 2.4.15 finishing off the VM stability work and other rough corners. At that point the 2.5 kernel tree will be opened. There is a lot stuff queued for 2.5. It isn't going to be possible or sensible to throw it all into 2.5.0. One of the tasks is to put changes together in the right order.
Marcelo Tosatti will be the head maintainer over the 2.4 stable kernel tree. This is not the giant change it may seem from the outside. The stable kernel management was and is a group effort. Marcelo and many others have been active in 2.2 and 2.4 stabilisation work. I'll be helping Marcelo with advice when he asks it, and working on feeding him the 2.4 relevant bits of the -ac tree.
I will not be dissappearing from the scene, although I might be a little less visible at times. There are various kernel projects I will be working on as well as spending more time concentrating on Red Hat customer related needs. I'm hopeful that spending more time closer to customers will help provide more insight into where 2.5 needs to be going.
David Weinehall did a great job on 2.0.39 when he took over 2.0 from me.I'm very confident that Marcelo will do a great job on 2.4.
Alan
Alan, you've done a wonderful job stabilising and maintaining 2.0, 2.2 and the 2.4-ac kernels. I understand you're looking for a change after all these years, though and can't blame you for handing over the torch to another good maintainer.
You sure did one hell of a job for all of us. Thanks!
I'd like to add my voice in praise of Alan and the Linux kernel team as well. It's always a happy event when maintainership of a valuable project is successfully passed to another person. The strength of any free software project is the existence of a group of people with deep knowledge and understanding. The Linux kernel is fortunate to have many such people, cutting across a wide range of countries, companies, business models, and non-businesses. As such it has an amazing strength.
I know I can depend on Linux continuing to evolve and improve, and give my thanks to all who work so hard to make this happen.
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