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
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