From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from relay.sgi.com (relay3.corp.sgi.com [198.149.34.15]) by oss.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57D627FB5 for ; Fri, 8 Nov 2013 13:45:54 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2013 13:45:50 -0600 From: Ben Myers Subject: Re: XFS leadership and a new co-maintainer candidate Message-ID: <20131108194550.GZ1935@sgi.com> References: <20131107220208.GY1935@sgi.com> <527C0F64.3010906@sgi.com> <527C4B27.6020205@redhat.com> <527CC50D.4060905@redhat.com> <20131108180337.GO10553@sgi.com> <527D28DC.6060305@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <527D28DC.6060305@redhat.com> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Ric Wheeler Cc: elder@kernel.org, Mark Tinguely , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , xfs@oss.sgi.com, Christoph Hellwig , Linus Torvalds Hey Ric, On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 01:09:32PM -0500, Ric Wheeler wrote: > On 11/08/2013 01:03 PM, Ben Myers wrote: > >Hey Ric, > > > >On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 06:03:41AM -0500, Ric Wheeler wrote: > >>In the XFS community, we have 2 clear leaders in terms of > >>contributions of significant feaures and depth of knowledge - > >>Christoph and Dave. > >> > >>If you look at the number of patches submitted by developers since > >>3.0 who have more than 10 patches, we get the following: > >> > >> 319 Author: Dave Chinner > >> 163 Author: Christoph Hellwig > >> 51 Author: Christoph Hellwig > >> 35 Author: Linus Torvalds > >> 34 Author: Chandra Seetharaman > >> 29 Author: Al Viro > >> 28 Author: Brian Foster > >> 25 Author: Zhi Yong Wu > >> 24 Author: Jeff Liu > >> 21 Author: Jie Liu > >> 20 Author: Mark Tinguely > >> 16 Author: Dave Chinner > >> 12 Author: Eric Sandeen > >> 12 Author: Carlos Maiolino > >> > >>If we as a community had more capacity for patch review, Dave's > >>numbers would have jumped up even higher :) > >> > >>It is certainly very welcome to bring new developers into our > >>community, but if we are going to add a co-maintainer for XFS, we > >>really need to have one of our two leading developers in that role. > >Mark is replacing Alex as my backup because Alex is really busy at > >Linaro and asked to be taken off awhile ago. The holiday season is > >coming up and I fully intend to go off my meds, turn in to Fonzy the > >bear, and eat my hat. I need someone to watch the shop while I'm off > >exploring on Mars. I trust Mark to do that because he is totally > >awesome. > > > >-Ben > > I don't mean any disrepect to you or to Mark, Don't worry about it, I have plenty to spare. ;P > but maintainership is > something that you earn over time by proving yourself in the > community as a developer and a leader of the technology on a > personal level. > > It is not something that gets managed by the community of developers > and has the key role of keeping the most frequent developers engaged > and happy. That has not been working for us as a community lately. > > Dave Chinner is the obvious person to take on the maintainer role as > someone who has an order of magnitude more code contributed than > either of you (even combined). > > Christoph, if he has time, would also be an excellent candidate. Eric is also a good choice. I'd be happy to add all three. -Ben _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs