XFS leadership and a new co-maintainer candidate

Ric Wheeler
2013-11-08T11:04:16Z

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 <dchinner@redhat.com>
163 Author: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
51 Author: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
35 Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
34 Author: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
29 Author: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
28 Author: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
25 Author: Zhi Yong Wu <wuzhy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
24 Author: Jeff Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com>
21 Author: Jie Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com>
20 Author: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
16 Author: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
12 Author: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
12 Author: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com>

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.

Best regards,

Ric

On 11/07/2013 09:23 PM, Ric Wheeler wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> How exactly did we decide to add a new co-maintainer? Shouldn't we have some
> discussion on the list and see some substantial history of contributions?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Ric
>
>
> On 11/07/2013 05:08 PM, Mark Tinguely wrote:
>> Updated maintainer info.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
>> ---
>> MAINTAINERS | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> Index: b/MAINTAINERS
>> ===================================================================
>> --- a/MAINTAINERS 2013-11-07 15:42:04.554561805 -0600
>> +++ b/MAINTAINERS 2013-11-07 15:42:59.034889770 -0600
>> @@ -9388,7 +9388,7 @@ F: drivers/xen/*swiotlb*
>> XFS FILESYSTEM
>> P: Silicon Graphics Inc
>> M: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
>> -M: Alex Elder <elder@kernel.org>
>> +M: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
>> M: xfs@oss.sgi.com
>> L: xfs@oss.sgi.com
>> W: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
>>
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