Yearly maintainership rotation?

Yearly maintainership rotation?

[Darrick J. Wong]

Hi everyone,

Now that it's nearly September again, what do you all think about
rotating release managers?  Chandan has told me that he'd be willing to
step into maintaining upstream xfsprogs; what do the rest of you think
about that?

Also, does anyone want to tackle fstests? :D

--D

Re: Yearly maintainership rotation?

[Carlos Maiolino]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2025 at 03:54:00PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Now that it's nearly September again, what do you all think about
> rotating release managers?  Chandan has told me that he'd be willing to
> step into maintaining upstream xfsprogs; what do the rest of you think
> about that?
> 
> Also, does anyone want to tackle fstests? :D

Considering you were specific about xfxsprogs and fstests, I believe
you excluded kernel on purpose, but anyway, from my side I'm pretty ok
with how things are now, and I'd rather keep it as-is, specially because
I'm enjoying the role :-)

Of course I'm talking about my side and my workload only, I don't speak
for Andrey or Zorro.

Carlos

> 
> --D
> 

Re: Yearly maintainership rotation?

[Darrick J. Wong]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2025 at 10:07:02AM +0200, Carlos Maiolino wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2025 at 03:54:00PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> > 
> > Now that it's nearly September again, what do you all think about
> > rotating release managers?  Chandan has told me that he'd be willing to
> > step into maintaining upstream xfsprogs; what do the rest of you think
> > about that?
> > 
> > Also, does anyone want to tackle fstests? :D
> 
> Considering you were specific about xfxsprogs and fstests, I believe
> you excluded kernel on purpose, but anyway, from my side I'm pretty ok
> with how things are now, and I'd rather keep it as-is, specially because
> I'm enjoying the role :-)

I specifically mentioned xfsprogs because Chandan volunteered, and
fstests because Zorro has been maintaining that for a very long time.

It's fine if everyone wants to keep going as they are now, but positive
re-affirmation once a year feels (to a longtime maintainer like me,
anyway) like a face-saving way to give people an offramp if they decide
to take it.  IOWs, I think it best to help the maintainers avoid
burnout.

> Of course I'm talking about my side and my workload only, I don't speak
> for Andrey or Zorro.

<nod> No rush, you all have plenty of time to give things a good
thinking through. :)

--D

> Carlos
> 
> > 
> > --D
> > 
> 

Re: Yearly maintainership rotation?

[Andrey Albershteyn]

On 2025-08-20 08:25:52, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2025 at 10:07:02AM +0200, Carlos Maiolino wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 19, 2025 at 03:54:00PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > > Hi everyone,
> > > 
> > > Now that it's nearly September again, what do you all think about
> > > rotating release managers?  Chandan has told me that he'd be willing to
> > > step into maintaining upstream xfsprogs; what do the rest of you think
> > > about that?
> > > 
> > > Also, does anyone want to tackle fstests? :D
> > 
> > Considering you were specific about xfxsprogs and fstests, I believe
> > you excluded kernel on purpose, but anyway, from my side I'm pretty ok
> > with how things are now, and I'd rather keep it as-is, specially because
> > I'm enjoying the role :-)
> 
> I specifically mentioned xfsprogs because Chandan volunteered, and
> fstests because Zorro has been maintaining that for a very long time.
> 
> It's fine if everyone wants to keep going as they are now, but positive
> re-affirmation once a year feels (to a longtime maintainer like me,
> anyway) like a face-saving way to give people an offramp if they decide
> to take it.  IOWs, I think it best to help the maintainers avoid
> burnout.

Thanks!

So far, I'm also good with continuing to maintain xfsprogs :)

> 
> > Of course I'm talking about my side and my workload only, I don't speak
> > for Andrey or Zorro.
> 
> <nod> No rush, you all have plenty of time to give things a good
> thinking through. :)
> 
> --D
> 
> > Carlos
> > 
> > > 
> > > --D
> > > 
> > 
> 

-- 
- Andrey