Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 08 Nov 2013 18:32:33 -0500 | From | Ric Wheeler <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] update xfs maintainers |
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On 11/08/2013 05:17 PM, Ben Myers wrote: > Hey Ric, > > On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 05:07:45PM -0500, Ric Wheeler wrote: >> On 11/08/2013 05:03 PM, Ben Myers wrote: >>> Hey Ric, >>> >>> On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 03:50:21PM -0500, Ric Wheeler wrote: >>>> On 11/08/2013 03:46 PM, Ben Myers wrote: >>>>> Hey Christoph, >>>>> >>>>> On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 11:34:24AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >>>>>> On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 12:03:37PM -0600, Ben Myers wrote: >>>>>>> Mark is replacing Alex as my backup because Alex is really busy at >>>>>>> Linaro and asked to be taken off awhile ago. The holiday season is >>>>>>> coming up and I fully intend to go off my meds, turn in to Fonzy the >>>>>>> bear, and eat my hat. I need someone to watch the shop while I'm off >>>>>>> exploring on Mars. I trust Mark to do that because he is totally >>>>>>> awesome. >>>>>> Doing this as an unilateral decisions is not something that will win you >>>>>> a fan base. >>>>> It's posted for review. >>>>> >>>>>> While we never had anything reassembling a democracy in Linux Kernel >>>>>> development making decisions without even contacting the major >>>>>> contributor is wrong, twice so if the maintainer is a relatively minor >>>>>> contributor to start with. >>>>>> >>>>>> Just because it recent came up elsewhere I'd like to recite the >>>>>> definition from Trond here again: >>>>>> >>>>>> http://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/ksummit-2012-discuss/2012-June/000066.html >>>>>> >>>>>> By many of the creative roles enlisted there it's clear that Dave should >>>>>> be the maintainer. He's been the main contributor and chief architect >>>>>> for XFS for many year, while the maintainers came and went at the mercy >>>>>> of SGI. This is not meant to bad mouth either of you as I think you're >>>>>> doing a reasonably good job compared to other maintainers, but at the >>>>>> same time the direction is set by other people that have a much longer >>>>>> involvement with the project, and having them officially in control >>>>>> would help us forward a lot. It would also avoid having to spend >>>>>> considerable resources to train every new generation of SGI maintainer. >>>>>> >>>>>> Coming to and end I would like to maintain Dave Chinner as the primary >>>>>> XFS maintainer for all the work he has done as biggest contributor and >>>>>> architect of XFS since longer than I can remember, and I would love to >>>>>> retain Ben Myers as a co-maintainer for all the good work he has done >>>>>> maintaining and reviewing patches since November 2011. >>>>> I think we're doing a decent job too. So thanks for that much at least. ;) >>>>>> I would also like to use this post as a public venue to condemn the >>>>>> unilateral smokey backroom decisions about XFS maintainership that SGI is >>>>>> trying to enforce on the community. >>>>> That really didn't happen Christoph. It's not in my tree or in a pull request. >>>>> >>>>> Linus, let me know what you want to do. I do think we're doing a fair job over >>>>> here, and (geez) I'm just trying to add Mark as my backup since Alex is too >>>>> busy. I know the RH people want more control, and that's understandable, but >>>>> they really don't need to replace me to get their code in. Ouch. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks, >>>>> Ben >>>> Christoph is not a Red Hat person. >>>> >>>> Jeff is from Oracle. >>>> >>>> This is not a Red Hat vs SGI thing, >>> Sorry if my read on that was wrong. >> I do appreciate the work and effort you and the SGI team put in but >> think that this will be a good way to keep the community happier and >> even more productive going forward. >> >>>> Dave simply has earned the right >>>> to take on the formal leadership role of maintainer. >>> Then we're gonna need some Reviewed-bys. ;) >> Those should come from the developers, thanks! > I actually do need your Reviewed-by. We'll try and get this one in 3.13. ;) > > Thanks, > Ben
Happy to do that - I do think that Dave mostly posts from his redhat.com account, but he can comment once he gets back online.
Reviewed-by: Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@redhat.com> > >>> From: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com> >>> >>> xfs: update maintainers >>> >>> Add Dave as maintainer of XFS. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com> >>> --- >>> MAINTAINERS | 2 +- >>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) >>> >>> Index: b/MAINTAINERS >>> =================================================================== >>> --- a/MAINTAINERS 2013-11-08 15:20:18.935186245 -0600 >>> +++ b/MAINTAINERS 2013-11-08 15:22:50.685245977 -0600 >>> @@ -9387,8 +9387,8 @@ F: drivers/xen/*swiotlb* >>> XFS FILESYSTEM >>> P: Silicon Graphics Inc >>> +M: Dave Chinner <dchinner@fromorbit.com> >>> M: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com> >>> -M: Alex Elder <elder@kernel.org> >>> M: xfs@oss.sgi.com >>> L: xfs@oss.sgi.com >>> W: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
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