Re: [RFC PATCH v3 0/1] mdadm: Change main repository to Github

[Mariusz Tkaczyk <mariusz.tkaczyk@linux.intel.com>]

On Tue,  7 May 2024 17:35:08 +0200
Mariusz Tkaczyk <mariusz.tkaczyk@linux.intel.com> wrote:

> Thanks to Song and Paul, we created organization for md-raid on Github.
> This is a perfect place to maintain mdadm. I would like announce moving
> mdadm development to Github.
> 
> It is already forked, feel free to explore:
> https://github.com/md-raid-utilities/mdadm
> 
> Github is powerful and it has well integrated CI. On the repo, you can
> already find a pull request which will add compilation and code style
> tests (Thanks to Kinga!).
> This is MORE than we have now so I believe that with the change mdadm
> stability and code quality will be increased. The participating method
> will be simplified, it is really easy to create pull request. Also,
> anyone can fork repo with base tests included and properly configured.
> 
> Note that Song and Paul are working on a per patch CI system using GitHub
> Actions and a dedicated rack of servers to enable fast container, VM and
> bare metal testing for both mdraid and mdadm. Having mdadm on GitHub will
> help with that integration.
> 
> Patches sent to ML will be accepted but Github Pull Requests are
> preferred so please use mailing list only if it is necessary. I will
> setup GitHub to send email to the mailing list on each new PR so that
> everyone is still aware of pending patches via the mailing list.
> 
> As a kernel.org mdadm maintainer, I will keep kernel.org repo and Github
> in-sync for both master/main branches. Although they will be kept
> in sync, developers should consider GitHub/main effective immediately
> after merging this patchset.
> 
> I have strong confidence that it is good change for mdadm but I
> understand that review flow will be worse.
> 
> Thanks all for comments!
> 
> Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
> Cc: Paul E Luse <paul.e.luse@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>
> Cc: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
> Cc: Kinga Tanska <kinga.tanska@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@trained-monkey.org>
> 
> v2: Highlight that linux-raid@kernel.org remains as main place for
>     questions and discussions.
> v3: Accept patches sent through Mailing List and add missed RFC tag.
> 
> Mariusz Tkaczyk (1):
>   mdadm: Change main repository to Github
> 
>  MAINTAINERS.md | 41 ++++++++----------------
>  README.md      | 86 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
>  2 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 66 deletions(-)
> 

No new comments. I'm going to apply this tomorrow!

Thanks,
Mariusz