From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: NeilBrown Subject: Re: WANTED new maintainer for Linux/md (and mdadm) Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2016 13:38:24 +1100 Message-ID: <8760z4aj8f.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name> References: <87k2o849j5.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name> <20160104182402.GA1541@kernel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20160104182402.GA1541@kernel.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Shaohua Li Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, dm-devel@redhat.com, LKML , Linus Torvalds , "J. Bruce Fields" , Phil Turmel List-Id: linux-raid.ids --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain On Tue, Jan 05 2016, Shaohua Li wrote: > > Hi Neil, > > Thanks for all the efforts! We will definitely miss you and fortunately you > won't completely quit from MD :). I'm very interested in helping maintain MD. I > have been working on MD for several years. My employer (facebook) supports me, > so I have time being a maintainer too. Hi Shaohua, as you are one of the more active developers of MD at the moment, this probably affects you more than many others and your willingness to contribute more is certainly welcome. The first question is where do you send your patches to get the appropriate review and upstream acceptance. Alasdair or Mike (DM), Jens (Block), Andrew Morton (anything) and Linus (everything) are all defensible choices for upstreaming (I've submitted through Andrew in the past, but through Linus exclusively once I figured out git). That is really something you and they would need to negotiate though. I plan to submit a pull request to Linus for the 4.5 merge window and then stop queuing patches. I will still review your journaling patches but will likely reply with "Reviewed-by" rather than "applied, thanks". My intention is to only look at other patches if they already have an independent "Reviewed-by", but it remains to be seen how strongly I stick to that intention. If you have specific questions about anything (md internals, git work-flows, whatever) do feel free to ask. I am trying to write some comprehensive documentation on the internals of MD - though it is slow going. Once that is mostly done I'll make it available and it should at least serve as a good structure in which to place answers to further questions. Thanks, NeilBrown --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJWjyEgAAoJEDnsnt1WYoG5qMwQAJ7KgnYkWnd0ikzV6KCGo/bq uUavtpz+BEHAfUDQXFGepplmuryndnOBqcHHomqV8HNxxYZlA4v9xOKbXtucvLuD fYkVBxdnGKPyGz0RN1vRgIG0pIpPyX7o/Ztcz1AKxHpVxyNH7+oByBlSKjm48lUV 4ntm6NgIQ1hXVip5ZsxtJ6EsHv3TUpmaiaoGHcvDskIvXCX+qgXUIg5TUivI0Lhy 1uxINIsDIpbaf3NTOV66m51xLBUyAvLwT+QzNZcejGkVXbmvT5JgjC0tbcVr7Pax s61JGnO2jMQ3AoBeXLdowtx502EhnwzdacvNfYpkLDhqqOood6equimKep5JvY8w 3l9yfSslHgRmTSiRHvdBheu81sg64UjONXlkVji6nE/qDa76so7yJuuXdlN9n2V0 7pgyLEWk9AZTpkGjcpUodWiKQC0EErLHa52/x05NlF+NQE7UvGA5W6qUxbVeeQMJ XD32VwQd2GrU/Ab7SX7P/ITyfjdSR2ThWfi+8HKYIIl7nkXFDhvH8QmQI2hVRhZ6 bTRkoUOOYbrScRsKu9H5cboLMitDrKpkhLFrAueYqxdVDiPKekBal+0cqz+M2xG6 5JfpXBSh2unHf4A3wYhtEPya7rSDB/3+WgL6ZRnb4z/Z/4q8/JmHnOFpnectEhvW dSfogg6q9fqKlaLeUsJL =9Ih7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--