Re: maintainership of fstests

Eryu Guan
2022-04-10T16:24:24Z

On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 12:19:35AM +0800, 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

Glad to hear that! I'm sure you can do it well!

I'll talk to you to see how to make the transfor of maintainer go smoothly.

Thanks,
Eryu

> 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.
>
> 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.
> >
>