Re: SRP initiator driver maintainership

[Jack Wang <jinpu.wang-EIkl63zCoXaH+58JC4qpiA@public.gmane.org>]

On 01/21/2014 11:03 AM, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
> On 1/20/2014 7:37 PM, Bart Van Assche wrote:
>> On 01/03/14 22:16, David Dillow wrote:
>>> Today was my last day at ORNL, and my future endeavors will leave even
>>> less time to maintain the SRP initiator.
>>>
>>> My thanks especially go to Bart, for keeping the pressure to improve
>>> alive, and for driving so many of those improvements.
>>>
>>> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
>>> index 6c20792..a36f1b5 100644
>>> --- a/MAINTAINERS
>>> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
>>> @@ -7466,7 +7466,6 @@ S:    Maintained
>>>   F:    drivers/scsi/sr*
>>>     SCSI RDMA PROTOCOL (SRP) INITIATOR
>>> -M:    David Dillow <dillowda-1Heg1YXhbW8@public.gmane.org>
>>>   L:    linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
>>>   S:    Supported
>>>   W:    http://www.openfabrics.org
>> (replying to an e-mail of two weeks ago)
>>
>> Hello Dave,
>>
>> Thanks for all the time you have spent reviewing and testing SRP
>> initiator patches. Such maintainer work is unglamorous but important -
>> it is due to the combined effort of all kernel maintainers that the
>> Linux kernel earned its high quality reputation.
>>
>> Roland, what is your preference with regard to maintainership of the SRP
>> initiator driver ? My plan is to continue contributing patches to the
>> SRP initiator driver at about the same pace as I had done in the past.
>> Do you prefer to take over maintainership of this driver yourself or is
>> it okay for you that I become the official maintainer for this driver ?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Bart.
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> 
> 
> Bart,
> 
> Your contribution to SRP was and still is important!
> You led the efforts improving and stabilizing SRP driver and
> adding the fast-failover logic which was needed for so long.
> 
> Roland,
> I collaborated with Bart on SRP enhancement in the past year or so
> and I think Bart is a perfect match for SRP maintainership.
> 
> Sagi.
Vote for Bart, he is improving SRP consistently, does good job on this.

Jack


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