From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:55504 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750697AbcFAHA2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jun 2016 03:00:28 -0400 Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2016 15:00:25 +0800 From: Eryu Guan Subject: Re: [RFD] fstests needs a new maintainer Message-ID: <20160601070025.GQ5140@eguan.usersys.redhat.com> References: <20160523045350.GF26977@dastard> <20160523064138.GA5051@zlang.usersys.redhat.com> <20160523145503.GA32314@infradead.org> <20160524140301.GU5140@eguan.usersys.redhat.com> <20160531211249.GE12670@dastard> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160531211249.GE12670@dastard> Sender: fstests-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Dave Chinner Cc: fstests@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 07:12:49AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 10:03:01PM +0800, Eryu Guan wrote: > > On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 07:55:03AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 02:41:38PM +0800, Zorro Lang wrote: > > > > Thanks for what you did for us. I'm just thinking maybe you can > > > > separate fstests maintenance jobs to several different maintainers? > > > > Due to fstests project become bigger and bigger, it maybe hard for > > > > someone review & merge & verify all kinds of patches. > > > > > > > > As I know LTP have "not only one" maintainers. I think we still > > > > need someone like you can make important decision for fstests. > > > > But for some daily jobs, you can distribute them to others. > > > > > > FYI, back when we team-maintained the xfstests-dev repo together with > > > all the other xfs -dev repos it worked out fine. But even with that > > > we need someone to volunteer for doing the day to day grunt work. > > > > > > While I'd be happy to help out I fear I don't have time to do the > > > majority of the work at the moment either. > > > > I'd like to help out to do the day to day dirty work as well, though I > > don't have such experience before. > > Thank you for putting your hand up, Eryu. I don't think ayone else > is going to nominate themselves (or anyone else) at this point, so > I'll happily accept your offer. If anyone objects, then please speak > up now... > > Eryu, I don't think a lack of experience will be a problem - there > isn't a whole lot of things you need to learn to manage git trees in > a consistent manner. > > I'm not sure what the best way to start you off is - we can probably > talk a bit off-list and work out how best to get you up to speed and > so not overload and drown you instantly. Once we work that out we > can let everyone know how we'll manage everything and what the > longer term plan is. > > Sound reasonable? Yes, that sounds reasonable to me. Though it's a big challenge to me, I'll do my best to work it out. Thank you for the trust! Thanks, Eryu