Re: maintainership of fstests

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>]

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.
>>
>