* maintainership of fstests
@ 2022-03-20 17:38 Eryu Guan
2022-03-21 5:51 ` Zorro Lang
` (2 more replies)
0 siblings, 3 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: Eryu Guan @ 2022-03-20 17:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: fstests; +Cc: Darrick J. Wong, Dave Chinner, Eric Sandeen, Amir Goldstein
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.
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.
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: maintainership of fstests
2022-03-20 17:38 maintainership of fstests Eryu Guan
@ 2022-03-21 5:51 ` Zorro Lang
2022-03-21 16:19 ` Zorro Lang
2022-03-21 22:13 ` Darrick J. Wong
2 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: Zorro Lang @ 2022-03-21 5:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eryu Guan; +Cc: fstests
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.
Thanks for your long time contribution! Even after you leave Red Hat, you
still try to keep weekly updating, I don't know how to express my gratitude
for that. Rich blessing to you and your family!
Thanks,
Zorro
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: maintainership of fstests
2022-03-20 17:38 maintainership of fstests Eryu Guan
2022-03-21 5:51 ` Zorro Lang
@ 2022-03-21 16:19 ` Zorro Lang
2022-04-04 15:36 ` Eric Sandeen
2022-04-10 16:24 ` Eryu Guan
2022-03-21 22:13 ` Darrick J. Wong
2 siblings, 2 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: Zorro Lang @ 2022-03-21 16:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eryu Guan; +Cc: fstests
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.
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.
>
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: maintainership of fstests
2022-03-20 17:38 maintainership of fstests Eryu Guan
2022-03-21 5:51 ` Zorro Lang
2022-03-21 16:19 ` Zorro Lang
@ 2022-03-21 22:13 ` Darrick J. Wong
2022-04-10 16:15 ` Eryu Guan
2 siblings, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread
From: Darrick J. Wong @ 2022-03-21 22:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eryu Guan; +Cc: fstests, Dave Chinner, Eric Sandeen, Amir Goldstein
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.
Thank you for your service for all that time! :)
> 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?
Splitting responsibility for maintenance doesn't seem like a huge step
to me -- for fs-specific tests, we need the developers for that fs to
review test changes. Review for tests/generic/ can be done by the
fs{devel,*} community at large, much as it is done now.
The /difficult/ part, I think, is handling things like treewide
reorganizations, and integration testing the test suite. That, I think,
is what really requires a primary maintainer who has broader visibility
into what's going on.
That primary maintainer also has to have time to run a build-and-test
farm of all the major fstests clients (ext*, xfs, btrfs, overlay, nfs,
what else?) to make sure that new code doesn't break existing
filesystems' ability to test themselves.
Granted, (speaking only for XFS, probably btrfs, and maybe even ext*),
we seem to notice regressions pretty fast when we download the weekly
release, so I think the primary maintainer's focus probably ought to be
more towards the non-mainstream Linux filesystems.
Also: over the past 6 years, I have /really/ enjoyed the fact that
fstests has small releases every 1-2 weeks as opposed to larger
infrequent drops. It's a relief not to have to chase a merge window
like I do for the kernel. Thank you a bunch for keeping that going!
--D
FYI: It's Spring Break here in the US, so you might not get much of a
response for a week or two.
>
> Thanks,
> Eryu
>
> P.S.
> I'll keep the maintainer role and do the review & update as usual until
> all things settle down.
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: maintainership of fstests
2022-03-21 16:19 ` Zorro Lang
@ 2022-04-04 15:36 ` Eric Sandeen
2022-04-04 16:15 ` Zorro Lang
2022-04-10 16:24 ` Eryu Guan
1 sibling, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread
From: Eric Sandeen @ 2022-04-04 15:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eryu Guan, fstests
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,
-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.
>>
>
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: maintainership of fstests
2022-04-04 15:36 ` Eric Sandeen
@ 2022-04-04 16:15 ` Zorro Lang
2022-04-05 0:57 ` Darrick J. Wong
` (2 more replies)
0 siblings, 3 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: Zorro Lang @ 2022-04-04 16:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eric Sandeen; +Cc: Eryu Guan, fstests
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.
> >>
> >
>
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: maintainership of fstests
2022-04-04 16:15 ` Zorro Lang
@ 2022-04-05 0:57 ` Darrick J. Wong
2022-04-05 9:04 ` Ritesh Harjani
2022-04-08 7:57 ` Boyang Xue
2 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: Darrick J. Wong @ 2022-04-05 0:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eric Sandeen, Eryu Guan, fstests
On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 12:15:44AM +0800, Zorro Lang wrote:
> 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.
Go for it!!!!1!!
--D
> 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.
> > >>
> > >
> >
>
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: maintainership of fstests
2022-04-04 16:15 ` Zorro Lang
2022-04-05 0:57 ` Darrick J. Wong
@ 2022-04-05 9:04 ` Ritesh Harjani
2022-04-08 7:57 ` Boyang Xue
2 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: Ritesh Harjani @ 2022-04-05 9:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eric Sandeen, Eryu Guan, fstests
On 22/04/05 12:15AM, Zorro Lang wrote:
> 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.
Awesome!! :)
-ritesh
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: maintainership of fstests
2022-04-04 16:15 ` Zorro Lang
2022-04-05 0:57 ` Darrick J. Wong
2022-04-05 9:04 ` Ritesh Harjani
@ 2022-04-08 7:57 ` Boyang Xue
2 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: Boyang Xue @ 2022-04-08 7:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eric Sandeen, Eryu Guan, fstests
On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 5:50 AM Zorro Lang <zlang@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
As his colleague, I see Zorro's great passion, effort and professional
in the fs area. It's great to me that Zorro goes for this position.
-Boyang
>
> 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.
> > >>
> > >
> >
>
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: maintainership of fstests
2022-03-21 22:13 ` Darrick J. Wong
@ 2022-04-10 16:15 ` Eryu Guan
0 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: Eryu Guan @ 2022-04-10 16:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Darrick J. Wong
Cc: Eryu Guan, fstests, Dave Chinner, Eric Sandeen, Amir Goldstein,
zlang
On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 03:13:36PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong 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.
>
> Thank you for your service for all that time! :)
>
> > 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?
>
> Splitting responsibility for maintenance doesn't seem like a huge step
> to me -- for fs-specific tests, we need the developers for that fs to
> review test changes. Review for tests/generic/ can be done by the
> fs{devel,*} community at large, much as it is done now.
Agreed.
>
> The /difficult/ part, I think, is handling things like treewide
> reorganizations, and integration testing the test suite. That, I think,
> is what really requires a primary maintainer who has broader visibility
> into what's going on.
Agreed.
>
> That primary maintainer also has to have time to run a build-and-test
> farm of all the major fstests clients (ext*, xfs, btrfs, overlay, nfs,
> what else?) to make sure that new code doesn't break existing
> filesystems' ability to test themselves.
Yes, that's what I did when I was at RH, I ran regression tests on all
major filesystems and on all major arches (x86_64 ppc64(le) aarch64)
before pushing new patches to git repo to make sure the new release is
in good shape.
And that's the problem for me now, as I don't have such machine resource
anymore.. And that's what Zorro has now :)
>
> Granted, (speaking only for XFS, probably btrfs, and maybe even ext*),
> we seem to notice regressions pretty fast when we download the weekly
> release, so I think the primary maintainer's focus probably ought to be
> more towards the non-mainstream Linux filesystems.
>
> Also: over the past 6 years, I have /really/ enjoyed the fact that
> fstests has small releases every 1-2 weeks as opposed to larger
> infrequent drops. It's a relief not to have to chase a merge window
> like I do for the kernel. Thank you a bunch for keeping that going!
Thanks for all the help and reviews all these years!
Thanks,
Eryu
>
> --D
>
> FYI: It's Spring Break here in the US, so you might not get much of a
> response for a week or two.
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Eryu
> >
> > P.S.
> > I'll keep the maintainer role and do the review & update as usual until
> > all things settle down.
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: maintainership of fstests
2022-03-21 16:19 ` Zorro Lang
2022-04-04 15:36 ` Eric Sandeen
@ 2022-04-10 16:24 ` Eryu Guan
2022-04-10 18:13 ` Darrick J. Wong
1 sibling, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread
From: Eryu Guan @ 2022-04-10 16:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zlang; +Cc: fstests
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.
> >
>
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: maintainership of fstests
2022-04-10 16:24 ` Eryu Guan
@ 2022-04-10 18:13 ` Darrick J. Wong
0 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: Darrick J. Wong @ 2022-04-10 18:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eryu Guan; +Cc: zlang, fstests
On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 12:24:12AM +0800, Eryu Guan wrote:
> 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.
Yeah... if you already have a kernel.org account, then you can ignore
the rest of this email. :P
First you'll need a *stable* email service of some kind -- this
MicXXXXXX crap that increasing numbers of us are being forced to use by
corporate IT is not going to cut it. Contributing to the gmXXX-vger
mail delay swamp isn't great either. :/
Then you'll need to create a PGP key and get enough of us who already
have kernel.org accounts (Eryu, dchinner, me, sandeen, hch, etc.) to
sign it to convince the kernel.org admins that you're legit; and so that
you can push signed tags to the git tree. I didn't get any hits in
pgp.mit.edu or the kernel keysigning map, so I'm presuming you don't
already have one...
In the old days a signing party was easy enough when we could do that in
person at LSFMM/LinuxCon/etc, but now ... I don't know what the
verification process is.
Next you'll want a kernel.org account so that you can push branches to
git.kernel.org. You'll also have to ask them to add you to the group
that has write access to the fstests repo:
https://korg.docs.kernel.org/accounts.html
In the meantime, if you need help pushing branches, I think at least
Eric, Dave, and I all should still have write access.
Anyways, welcome Zorro!
--D
> 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.
> > >
> >
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