Re: [PATCH] xfstests: stop special casing nfs and udf

Rich Johnston
2013-12-03T13:35:46Z

On 12/02/2013 10:29 PM, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 05:36:30PM -0600, Ben Myers wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 10:25:49AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
>>> On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 09:40:45AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 01:15:53AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>>>> ping?
>>>>
>>>> ping^2?
>>>
>>> I just got write access to the XFS git repos on oss.sgi.com, so I'll
>>> start hoovering up all the outstanding xfstests patches as a
>>> shakedown pass before I touch anything else...
>>
>> You might want to chat with Rich. There may be some already in progress.
>
> I've already pushed the ones I found last week on the list.
>
Thanks for doing this.

> FYI, I've been waiting for repo write perms to be able to push them
> since wednesday last week. Rich hasn't said anything on the mailing
> list or on IRC in that time, so I can only conclude that he's off
> doing something else.
>
> Handling xfstests patches in a manner necessary for upstream commit
> is something I've already integrated into my day-to-day workflow. As
> such, I'm able to push reviewed patches at almost any time (within
> reason - next day is best for everyone) at almost zero cost to me.
> That cost will go down as I script and optimise my workflow.
>
> If other developers don't want me to do this, let them speak up.
>
> However, as a maintainer, I'm not happy with leaving reviewed
> patches on the list for weeks before commiting them. As a developer,
> there is nothing more frsutrating that having to continually remind
> the maintainer that they need to commit a patch.
>
> Hence if a developer sends a ping to remind the maintainers about a
> reviewed patch that has been sitting around, then I'm going to do
> something about it straight away...
My apologies to Christoph. I missed that I thought he was waiting for a
review, not a commit from me.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave.