[Gluster-devel] Addition of sub-maintainers

[Vijay Bellur]

Hi All,

As discussed in the last community meeting [1], we are considering 
addition of sub-maintainers to GlusterFS. The intent of this activity is 
to streamline our patch management and make it more scalable.

The responsibilities of sub-maintainers would include:

1. Overall patch management of designated components.

2. Ownership of designated components
        - be responsible for overall quality of the components
        - work with upstream release maintainers for ensuring right 
content in releases
        - work with the broader community on resolving issues in the 
designated components

Avati and me have attempted to arrive at a tentative list of 
sub-maintainers. The selection of these folks has been primarily based on:

a> Code contributions to respective areas over a period of time
b> Community interactions
c> Effectiveness in code reviews

Here is the tentative list of sub-maintainers:

|----------------------------------|----------------------------------------------|
|component(s)                      | 
maintainer(s)                             |
|----------------------------------|----------------------------------------------|
|cli & glusterd                    |    Krishnan Parthasarathy & Kaushal 
Madappa  |
|----------------------------------|----------------------------------------------|
|afr & locks                       |    Pranith Kumar 
Karampuri                   |
|----------------------------------|----------------------------------------------|
|rpc, rdma, socket                 |    Raghavendra 
Gowdappa                      |
|----------------------------------|----------------------------------------------|
|geo-replication, changelog, cdc   |    Venky 
Shankar                             |
|----------------------------------|----------------------------------------------|
|quota                             |    Raghavendra 
Gowdappa                      |
|----------------------------------|----------------------------------------------|
|nfs                               |    Niels de 
Vos                              |
|----------------------------------|----------------------------------------------|

By no means this list is exhaustive - this is a first cut and the 
selection of components has been on areas where we currently see 
significant patch activity. We will continue to identify such areas and 
propose new maintainers at appropriate junctures. Me and Avati will 
manage patches as before for the overall codebase but our focus could be 
on areas that do not have designated sub-maintainers. We will also be 
available for any arbitration that might be required.

We plan to perform update gerrit to provide access to sub-maintainers by 
end of this week (i.e. 4th May). If you have any objections, concerns or 
feedback on this process, please feel free to provide that before then 
on this thread or to me in person.

Thanks,
Vijay

[1] 
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/gluster-meeting/2014-04-23/gluster-meeting.2014-04-23-15.00.log.html