XFS leadership and a new co-maintainer candidate

[Ric Wheeler]

In the XFS community, we have 2 clear leaders in terms of contributions of 
significant feaures and depth of knowledge - Christoph and Dave.

If you look at the number of patches submitted by developers since 3.0 who have 
more than 10 patches, we get the following:

    319 Author: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
    163 Author: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
     51 Author: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
     35 Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
     34 Author: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@xxxxxxxxxx>
     29 Author: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
     28 Author: Brian Foster <bfoster@xxxxxxxxxx>
     25 Author: Zhi Yong Wu <wuzhy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
     24 Author: Jeff Liu <jeff.liu@xxxxxxxxxx>
     21 Author: Jie Liu <jeff.liu@xxxxxxxxxx>
     20 Author: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@xxxxxxx>
     16 Author: Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
     12 Author: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>
     12 Author: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@xxxxxxxxxx>

If we as a community had more capacity for patch review, Dave's numbers would 
have jumped up even higher :)

It is certainly very welcome to bring new developers into our community, but if 
we are going to add a co-maintainer for XFS, we really need to have one of our 
two leading developers in that role.

Best regards,

Ric



On 11/07/2013 09:23 PM, Ric Wheeler wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> How exactly did we decide to add a new co-maintainer? Shouldn't we have some 
> discussion on the list and see some substantial history of contributions?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Ric
>
>
> On 11/07/2013 05:08 PM, Mark Tinguely wrote:
> > Updated maintainer info.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@xxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  MAINTAINERS |    2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > Index: b/MAINTAINERS
> > ===================================================================
> > --- a/MAINTAINERS    2013-11-07 15:42:04.554561805 -0600
> > +++ b/MAINTAINERS    2013-11-07 15:42:59.034889770 -0600
> > @@ -9388,7 +9388,7 @@ F:    drivers/xen/*swiotlb*
> >  XFS FILESYSTEM
> >  P:    Silicon Graphics Inc
> >  M:    Ben Myers <bpm@xxxxxxx>
> > -M:    Alex Elder <elder@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > +M:    Mark Tinguely <tinguely@xxxxxxx>
> >  M:    xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
> >  L:    xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
> >  W:    http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > xfs mailing list
> > xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
>
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