[Gluster-devel] Proposal for addition of maintainers and more...

[Vijay Bellur]

Hi All,

To supplement our ongoing effort of better patch management, I am 
proposing the addition of more maintainers for various components. The 
rationale behind this proposal & the responsibilities of maintainers 
continue to be the same as discussed in these lists a while ago [1] [2]. 
Here is the proposed list:

Jeff Darcy: Overall Maintainer across various components.

Bitrot - Venky Shankar & Raghavendra Bhat

Erasure Coding - Xavier Hernandez & Pranith Karampuri

Fuse - Niels de Vos & Raghavendra Bhat

Glusterd - Atin Mukherjee

libglusterfs - Pranith Karampuri & Niels de Vos

Snapshot - Rajesh Joseph

Tiering & libgfdb - Dan Lambright

Upcall infrastructure - Niels de Vos

I think it is very appropriate for us to now consider tests as a core 
component. In view of that, I propose the following maintainers for 
tests to help us build our overall test strategy and improve test 
coverage across the project.

Tests & distaf - Raghavendra Talur & Vishwanath Bhat

(for the uninitiated distaf is the regression test framework where we 
will be plugging in more tests)

In addition, given how glusterd & cli code is structured it seems more 
appropriate that respective component maintainers manage their part of 
code in these directories. The existing glusterd & cli maintainers will 
continue to manage the core framework.

We intend to roll ahead with these changes by 10th of June. Please let 
us know if you have objections, concerns or feedback on any of these 
proposals by then.

Thanks,
Vijay

[1] http://gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2014-April/025425.html

[2] http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2015-March/044176.html