On Tue, 7 May 2024 17:35:08 +0200 Mariusz Tkaczyk <mariusz.tkaczyk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks to Song and Paul, we created organization for md-raid on Github. > This is a perfect place to maintain mdadm. I would like announce moving > mdadm development to Github. > > It is already forked, feel free to explore: > https://github.com/md-raid-utilities/mdadm > > Github is powerful and it has well integrated CI. On the repo, you can > already find a pull request which will add compilation and code style > tests (Thanks to Kinga!). > This is MORE than we have now so I believe that with the change mdadm > stability and code quality will be increased. The participating method > will be simplified, it is really easy to create pull request. Also, > anyone can fork repo with base tests included and properly configured. > > Note that Song and Paul are working on a per patch CI system using GitHub > Actions and a dedicated rack of servers to enable fast container, VM and > bare metal testing for both mdraid and mdadm. Having mdadm on GitHub will > help with that integration. > > Patches sent to ML will be accepted but Github Pull Requests are > preferred so please use mailing list only if it is necessary. I will > setup GitHub to send email to the mailing list on each new PR so that > everyone is still aware of pending patches via the mailing list. > > As a kernel.org mdadm maintainer, I will keep kernel.org repo and Github > in-sync for both master/main branches. Although they will be kept > in sync, developers should consider GitHub/main effective immediately > after merging this patchset. > > I have strong confidence that it is good change for mdadm but I > understand that review flow will be worse. > > Thanks all for comments! > > Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx> > Cc: Paul E Luse <paul.e.luse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Song Liu <song@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Kinga Tanska <kinga.tanska@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > v2: Highlight that linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxx remains as main place for > questions and discussions. > v3: Accept patches sent through Mailing List and add missed RFC tag. > > Mariusz Tkaczyk (1): > mdadm: Change main repository to Github > > MAINTAINERS.md | 41 ++++++++---------------- > README.md | 86 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------- > 2 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 66 deletions(-) > No new comments. I'm going to apply this tomorrow! Thanks, Mariusz
