Hello everybody,

I'm more than happy to be able to announce that we have found a number of new custodians who will help to further distribute the work and especially to reduce the backlog of unprocessed patches:

Here is the lst of new custodians:

- AVR32: Andreas Bießmann

- Network Library: Joe Hershberger

- OnenNAND: Lukasz Majewski

- USB Drivers: Marek Vasut

All these repos are ready for immediate use.

Welcome aboard, and thanks again to all of you for volunteering!

Now for the release status: you have most probably realized that according to the schedule the next release would be just 4 days ahead, but we still have a long list of patches that need applying, so I decided to stretch the release; the new plan says March 31 (which would allow us to stay within the 3/6/9/12 grid), but I will not hesitate to make this a v2012/04 if this seems appropriate.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk