[Gluster-devel] Addition of sub-maintainers

[Pranith Kumar Karampuri]

It feels nice and scary at the same time. Hope things go well :-)

Thanks
Pranith
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Anand Avati" <avati at gluster.org>
> To: "Vijay Bellur" <vbellur at redhat.com>
> Cc: gluster-devel at gluster.org
> Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2014 11:48:37 AM
> Subject: Re: [Gluster-devel] Addition of sub-maintainers
> 
> 
> 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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