Re: [RFD] fstests needs a new maintainer

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On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 07:12:49AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 10:03:01PM +0800, Eryu Guan wrote:
> > On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 07:55:03AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 02:41:38PM +0800, Zorro Lang wrote:
> > > > Thanks for what you did for us. I'm just thinking maybe you can
> > > > separate fstests maintenance jobs to several different maintainers?
> > > > Due to fstests project become bigger and bigger, it maybe hard for
> > > > someone review & merge & verify all kinds of patches.
> > > > 
> > > > As I know LTP have "not only one" maintainers. I think we still
> > > > need someone like you can make important decision for fstests.
> > > > But for some daily jobs, you can distribute them to others.
> > > 
> > > FYI, back when we team-maintained the xfstests-dev repo together with
> > > all the other xfs -dev repos it worked out fine.  But even with that
> > > we need someone to volunteer for doing the day to day grunt work.
> > > 
> > > While I'd be happy to help out I fear I don't have time to do the
> > > majority of the work at the moment either.
> > 
> > I'd like to help out to do the day to day dirty work as well, though I
> > don't have such experience before.
> 
> Thank you for putting your hand up, Eryu. I don't think ayone else
> is going to nominate themselves (or anyone else) at this point, so
> I'll happily accept your offer. If anyone objects, then please speak
> up now...
> 
> Eryu, I don't think a lack of experience will be a problem - there
> isn't a whole lot of things you need to learn to manage git trees in
> a consistent manner.
> 
> I'm not sure what the best way to start you off is - we can probably
> talk a bit off-list and work out how best to get you up to speed and
> so not overload and drown you instantly. Once we work that out we
> can let everyone know how we'll manage everything and what the
> longer term plan is.
> 
> Sound reasonable?

Yes, that sounds reasonable to me. Though it's a big challenge to me,
I'll do my best to work it out. Thank you for the trust!

Thanks,
Eryu
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