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

[Vijay Bellur]

On 06/03/2015 05:20 PM, Vijay Bellur wrote:
> 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.


These proposals are now live. To summarize:

1. The proposed new maintainers are now official and have been added to 
the glusterfs-maintainers group in gerrit. This should enable new 
maintainers to merge patches in gerrit. I will be sending a patch to 
update MAINTAINERS file in the code repository.

2. cli & glusterd code changes pertaining to specific components will be 
managed by respective component maintainers.

Regards,
Vijay