Morton says "I believe the 2.6 kernel is slowly getting buggier. It seems we're adding bugs at a higher rate than we're fixing them." He also said, "Kernel developers will need to reapportion their time and spend more time fixing bugs. We may possibly have a bug-fix-only kernel cycle, which is purely for fixing up long-standing bugs."
Since the reports made it sound as if Morton is now the man making command decisions about the Linux kernel, and that the kernel is now in desperate straits, we checked with Torvalds to see what was what on both those issues.
In response to our first question, Torvalds said, "I think Andrew is listed as 'lead maintainer' simply because people take me for granted, so Andrew is the lead when you ignore me. The same way Alan used to be."