From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 16:58:05 GMT
Subject: Re: Planning to pass the baton to an interim maintainer
Message-ID: <7v7gqry8o2.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <507C3027.2030401@drmicha.warpmail.net>

Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:

> Jeff King venit, vidit, dixit 15.10.2012 07:56:
>> On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 11:23:07AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> 
>>> I am planning to
>>>
>>>  * tag 1.8.0 final on Oct 21st (Sun);
>>>  * go offline on Oct 22nd (Mon); and
>>>  * come back online on Nov 12th (Mon).
>>>
>>> Peff, could you be the interim maintainer as you've done in earlier
>>> years while I was away?
>> 
>> Sure, I look forward to ruling the list with an iron fist...er, helping
>> contributors review their patches.
>
> ...the ironing fist, yeah ;)

For the record, I do not iron every wrinkles out of everybody's
patches.  Anyhow, that is funny ;-)