[PATCH] update xfs maintainers

Ben Myers
2013-11-08T22:03:14Z

Hey Ric,

On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 03:50:21PM -0500, Ric Wheeler wrote:
> On 11/08/2013 03:46 PM, Ben Myers wrote:
> >Hey Christoph,
> >
> >On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 11:34:24AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >>On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 12:03:37PM -0600, Ben Myers wrote:
> >>>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.
> >>
> >>Doing this as an unilateral decisions is not something that will win you
> >>a fan base.
> >It's posted for review.
> >
> >>While we never had anything reassembling a democracy in Linux Kernel
> >>development making decisions without even contacting the major
> >>contributor is wrong, twice so if the maintainer is a relatively minor
> >>contributor to start with.
> >>
> >>Just because it recent came up elsewhere I'd like to recite the
> >>definition from Trond here again:
> >>
> >> http://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/ksummit-2012-discuss/2012-June/000066.html
> >>
> >>By many of the creative roles enlisted there it's clear that Dave should
> >>be the maintainer. He's been the main contributor and chief architect
> >>for XFS for many year, while the maintainers came and went at the mercy
> >>of SGI. This is not meant to bad mouth either of you as I think you're
> >>doing a reasonably good job compared to other maintainers, but at the
> >>same time the direction is set by other people that have a much longer
> >>involvement with the project, and having them officially in control
> >>would help us forward a lot. It would also avoid having to spend
> >>considerable resources to train every new generation of SGI maintainer.
> >>
> >>Coming to and end I would like to maintain Dave Chinner as the primary
> >>XFS maintainer for all the work he has done as biggest contributor and
> >>architect of XFS since longer than I can remember, and I would love to
> >>retain Ben Myers as a co-maintainer for all the good work he has done
> >>maintaining and reviewing patches since November 2011.
> >I think we're doing a decent job too. So thanks for that much at least. ;)
> >>I would also like to use this post as a public venue to condemn the
> >>unilateral smokey backroom decisions about XFS maintainership that SGI is
> >>trying to enforce on the community.
> >That really didn't happen Christoph. It's not in my tree or in a pull request.
> >
> >Linus, let me know what you want to do. I do think we're doing a fair job over
> >here, and (geez) I'm just trying to add Mark as my backup since Alex is too
> >busy. I know the RH people want more control, and that's understandable, but
> >they really don't need to replace me to get their code in. Ouch.
> >
> >Thanks,
> > Ben
>
> Christoph is not a Red Hat person.
>
> Jeff is from Oracle.
>
> This is not a Red Hat vs SGI thing,

Sorry if my read on that was wrong.

> Dave simply has earned the right
> to take on the formal leadership role of maintainer.

Then we're gonna need some Reviewed-bys. ;)

From: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>

xfs: update maintainers

Add Dave as maintainer of XFS.

Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
---
MAINTAINERS | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: b/MAINTAINERS
===================================================================
--- a/MAINTAINERS 2013-11-08 15:20:18.935186245 -0600
+++ b/MAINTAINERS 2013-11-08 15:22:50.685245977 -0600
@@ -9387,8 +9387,8 @@ F: drivers/xen/*swiotlb*

XFS FILESYSTEM
P: Silicon Graphics Inc
+M: Dave Chinner <dchinner@fromorbit.com>
M: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
-M: Alex Elder <elder@kernel.org>
M: xfs@oss.sgi.com
L: xfs@oss.sgi.com
W: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs