On Fri, Aug 22, 2025 at 04:31:49PM +0100, James Bottomley wrote: > > When did this become about how our current maintainer pull system > works? I'm certainly not advocating changing it. ... > Well I did ask for two concrete things, but I can certainly repeat: > > On Fri, 2025-08-22 at 09:09 +0100, James Bottomley wrote: > > I think I'd be happy if we sort out two things > > > > 1. That the decision be taken by more than one person rather than > > abdicating to last man standing Well, if we keep the current maintainer pull system, then the natural consequence is that it *is* up to the higher-level maintainer to make the decision. In the case where we don't have maintainer teams, then it will be a single person. So I don't know how to square your request with your assertion that you don't want to advocate changing how our current maintainer hierarchy works. Could you clarify your thinking here? Thanks, - Ted