On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 02:04:14PM -0400, Josef Bacik wrote: > I would like to propose we organize ourselves more akin to the other > large subsystems. We are one of the few where everybody sends their > own PR to Linus, so oftentimes the first time we're testing eachothers > code is when we all rebase our respective trees onto -rc1. I think > we could benefit from getting more organized amongst ourselves, having > a single tree we all flow into, and then have that tree flow into Linus. This sounds like a great idea to me. As someone who does a lot of changes that touch a lot of filesystems, I'd benefit from this model. It's very frustrating to be told "Oh, submit patches against tree X which isn't included in linux-next". A potential downside is that it increases the risk of an ntfs3 style disaster where the code is essentially dumped on all other fs maintainers. But I like the idea of a maintainer group which allows people to slide in and out of the "patch pumpkin" role. Particularly if it lets more junior developers take a turn at wrangling patches.
