Nick Terrell [off-list ref] wrote:

2. Reaching out to Herbert Xu—because the first zstd version went through the
   crypto tree—and other relevant maintainers who have been
   involved, and trying to get a word of support for adding me as the maintainer
   of lib/zstd in this thread.

Actually I don't think I ever merged lib/zstd.  I did take
crypto/zstd though which is the Crypto API wrapper around the
lib/zstd code.

Since the current contention is with lib/zstd I think it probably
makes sense for Linus to take it directly.

I think you should certainly be the maintainer of lib/zstd since
it was added by you and mostly used by you too :)

Thanks,
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