Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Remove Sven Eckelmann from BATMAN ADVANCED

Hi,

When we agree to allow someone to merge something into the tree,
especially a significant piece of code like batman-adv, there are some
impressions we want to have beforehand.

And one such impression we want is that there is going to be someone
continuing to be active maintaing the code upstream, even after the
code is merged.

Otherwise we get "merge and run" scenerios.  As networking maintainer,
I've been burnt by this several times.

If you're the only person who had the energy and motivation to do the
merges of this code, then you're only person we know that can keep up
with the expectations we had when we agreed to merge the code.

If you step down, that trust has been broken, and we're left with a
rotting pile of poo in the tree because it's unlikely anyone else is
going to step up and keep things maintained upstream as you did.

believing that the batman-adv code base will not be kept in sync anymore is a 
bit premature at this point. David, you may not know this but the first person 
to handle the "upstream job" was Andrew Lunn. At a certain point he stepped 
down and Sven took over. Now, Sven decided to focus on other things and I am 
certain somebody else will take the job. If no one else volunteers I'll fill 
the gap.

Taking over Sven's position won't be easy as he did a very good job and passes 
on high expectations. Sven, thanks a lot for all your time and effort on this 
matter!

David, I hope you can excuse the bumpy way in which this fell onto you. A 
smooth transition would certainly have been better. We will try to work on 
that part in the future. 

Regards,
Marek