[Gluster-devel] Addition of sub-maintainers

[Anand Avati]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 8:58 PM, Vijay Bellur <vbellur at redhat.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
+1. All well deserved!
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