Re: [LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] Changing how we do file system maintenance

[Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>]

On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 02:04:14PM -0400, Josef Bacik wrote:
> I would like to propose we organize ourselves more akin to the other
> large subsystems.  We are one of the few where everybody sends their
> own PR to Linus, so oftentimes the first time we're testing eachothers
> code is when we all rebase our respective trees onto -rc1.  I think
> we could benefit from getting more organized amongst ourselves, having
> a single tree we all flow into, and then have that tree flow into Linus.

This sounds like a great idea to me.  As someone who does a lot of
changes that touch a lot of filesystems, I'd benefit from this model.
It's very frustrating to be told "Oh, submit patches against tree X
which isn't included in linux-next".

A potential downside is that it increases the risk of an ntfs3 style
disaster where the code is essentially dumped on all other fs maintainers.
But I like the idea of a maintainer group which allows people to slide
in and out of the "patch pumpkin" role.  Particularly if it lets more
junior developers take a turn at wrangling patches.