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Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 15:32:33 -0500 From: Ric Wheeler <ricwheeler@...il.com> To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, Ben Myers <bpm@....com> CC: elder@...nel.org, Mark Tinguely <tinguely@....com>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, xfs@....sgi.com, Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@...hat.com> Subject: Re: XFS leadership and a new co-maintainer candidate On 11/08/2013 02:34 PM, 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. > > 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. This sounds like exactly the right thing to do to me as well, Ric > > 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. > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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