Re: Yearly maintainership rotation?

["Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>]

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
> > 
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