Re: [GIT PULL][PATCH v9 0/3] Update to zstd-1.4.10

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On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 12:04 PM Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 11:53:51AM -0700, Nick Terrell wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 11:35 AM Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 11:01:29AM -0700, Nick Terrell wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > I would really like to make some progress on this and get it merged.
> > > > This patchset offsers:
> > > > * 15-30% better decompression speed
> > > > * 3 years of zstd bug fixes and code improvements
> > > > * Allows us to import zstd directly from upstream so we don't fall 3
> > > > years out of date again
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Nick
> > > >
> > >
> > > I think it would help get it merged if someone actually volunteered to maintain
> > > it.  As-is there is no entry in MAINTAINERS for this code.
> >
> > I was discussing with Chris Mason about volunteering to maintain the
> > code myself.
> > We wanted to wait until this series got merged before going that
> > route, because there
> > was already a lot of comments about it, and I didn't want to appear to
> > be trying to bypass
> > any review or criticisms. But, please let me know what you think.
> >
>
> I expect that most people would like to see a commitment to maintain this code
> before merging.  The usual way to do that is to add a MAINTAINERS entry.
>
> Otherwise it is 27000 lines of code dumped on other people to maintain.

I will add a 4th patch in the series to update the MAINTAINERS.

> - Eric



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