Re: maintainership of fstests

Zorro Lang
2022-04-04T21:18:15Z

On Mon, Apr 04, 2022 at 10:36:01AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On 3/21/22 11:19 AM, Zorro Lang wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 01:38:23AM +0800, Eryu Guan wrote:
> >> Hi folks,
> >>
> >> It's almost 6 years since I've taken the maintainership of fstests, and
> >> I tried my best to keep the pace of weekly update, or at least bi-weekly
> >> update due to something like public holidays.
> >>
> >> But it's been a month since last fstests update due to my personal
> >> urgent issues, and some patches got no review for more than one month.
> >> So I think it's time to re-consider the maintainership of fstests.
> >>
> >> I will have less spare time in the foreseeable future, as I have to
> >> spend more time on my family, so it's hard to keep the weekly update
> >> pace. And six years is a long time, I think it's time to have a new
> >> maintainer.
> >
> > Hi Eryu,
> >
> > By thinking about it a while, I get up my courage to apply this job, although I
> > know I'm not the best one can handle this job. Just this project is really
> > useful for my team. Nearly from I joined Red Hat, my jobs started to around the
> > xfstests. It's a great testsuit, which can cover most of our testing. I felt
> > relieved when you toke this maintainer, and admired your courage at that time,
> > that really helps us a lot. No matter what you decide, thanks again for all your
> > help, as previous colleague, as friend.
>
> Hi Zorro - I'm sure that you would do well as a new maintainer, even if it
> requires some learning. Every new challenge requires learning. :) If you are able
> to balance it with your other tasks, I would be happy to see you take this on,
> if it's something you want to do.
>
> (See also Darrick's suggestion that maintainer tasks could be split up a bit,
> across the different filesystems.)

Thanks for your trust, Eric. As you said, it'll be a challenge to me, but I'll try
my best if I can have this opportunity.

Thanks,
Zorro

>
> Thanks,
> -Eric
>
> > Thanks,
> > Zorro
> >
> >>
> >> Or we could go to the group-maintain way? As Darrick mentioned before
> >> (for xfs not fstests, if I recall correctly). Then we need a new primary
> >> maintainer :)
> >>
> >> What do you think?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Eryu
> >>
> >> P.S.
> >> I'll keep the maintainer role and do the review & update as usual until
> >> all things settle down.
> >>
> >
>