Re: [PATCH 00/20] xfs-cmds staging tree

Christoph Hellwig
2008-12-22T20:50:04Z

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 07:33:55AM +1100, Mark Goodwin wrote:
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> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> This is the staging tree of xfs patches. Given that Barry is gone now it seem
>> like no one cares about userspace and I'll play patch monkey for now.
>
> Thanks Christoph. Lachlan and I were just discussing yesterday that
> it's time to set up a git repository for xfs-cmds on oss. This would
> contain all the userspace stuff: attr, acl, xfsprogs, dmapi, xfsdump
> and xfstests.
>
> Anyone have a reason not to keep all of this together in the one tree?
> I guess we'd need branches for 'master' (aka dev) and 'stable' or
> something ..?

Yes, that's a plan. Can you set it up in a way that we can push
directly to, similar to how Nathan does it for pcp? Nathan would also
like to push to the xfs-cmds tree for the debian packaging, btw.

One thing we were discussing is if it's really a good idea to have all
these together. acl and attr aren't really related to XFS, and it might
be a good idea to just have them maintained directly by Andreas.
xfsprogs is I think mostly by terrain these days with Barry gone,
xfstests is something I'd voluntter Eric for as he's been doing good
work on it. xfsdump still has a maintainer with Bill Kendall, and dmapi
would probably be best left to the DMF group at SGI. xfsmisc might be
better off as a scripts/ directory inside xfsprogs.