Hi list, I'm Rui Yang, originally I use Dave Young when I was in Red Hat. But in daily life I use my Chinse name, it is "Rui Yang" in Chinese pinyin. Since I could attend more local conferences if possible, it is better to keep the name consistent to be the "Rui Yang" instead of "Dave Young", so I decided to change the email full name. I know something about kernel and kexec/kdump and worked in Red Hat around 15 years in this area. Recently the original maintainers (Tao Liu, cced) can not pay too much time on crash maintenance, so I volunteered to maintain this project as a hobby. I'd like to continue to maintain it and improve it, keep in sync with kernel changes. I appreciate the previous great work from Dave Anderson, Lianbo Jiang, Tao Liu and Kazuhito Hagio. To make crash better, I would welcome more contributors, either test, triage, feedback, or code review. My recent personal plan about this project is to get more familiar with this project details (with assistance from AI): * A crash-lab to learn the crash usage * convert the crash-utility.github.io content to rst files under git repo, and automatically update them when source code changes. * update the outdated docs if possible. * Fix bugs I found, review/handle the github issues.

-- Thanks Rui (AKA. Dave Young)

On 11/2/26 10:30 AM, Tao Liu wrote: > Hi Dave, > > On Mon, Nov 2, 2026 at 12:33 AM Rui Yang <ruirui.yang(a)linux.dev&gt; wrote: >> >> Hi list, >> >> I'm Rui Yang, originally I use Dave Young when I was in Red Hat. But in daily life I use my Chinse name, it is "Rui Yang" in Chinese pinyin. Since I could attend more local conferences if possible, it is better to keep the name consistent to be the "Rui Yang" instead of "Dave Young", so I decided to change the email full name. >> >> I know something about kernel and kexec/kdump and worked in Red Hat around 15 years in this area. Recently the original maintainers (Tao Liu, cced) can not pay too much time on crash maintenance, so I volunteered to maintain this project as a hobby. I'd like to continue to maintain it and improve it, keep in sync with kernel changes. I appreciate the previous great work from Dave Anderson, Lianbo Jiang, Tao Liu and Kazuhito Hagio. >> >> To make crash better, I would welcome more contributors, either test, triage, feedback, or code review. >> >> My recent personal plan about this project is to get more familiar with this project details (with assistance from AI): >> * A crash-lab to learn the crash usage >> * convert the crash-utility.github.io content to rst files under git repo, and automatically update them when source code changes. >> * update the outdated docs if possible. >> * Fix bugs I found, review/handle the github issues. > > Thanks so much for volunteering to take on the role of crash > maintainer. I really appreciate your willingness to help! > > Due to some changes in my team's priorities, I need to dedicate more > of my time to other areas rather than the crash utility. I've > discussed this with Dave, and he's happy to share the maintenance > responsibilities with me. I'm also confident that Dave will make a > great maintainer! Tao, thank you! I have been in a management role for too long time, it is time for me to do something more interesting to myself :) I'm not very interested in kernel for the time being because it is more of big companies driving the development, it is hard to find some areas which are interesting to myself in the kernel so crash is a better choice for me.

> > Thanks, > Tao Liu > >> >> -- >> Thanks >> Rui (AKA. Dave Young) >> > -- Thanks Rui (AKA. Dave Young)