[Crash-utility] [ANNOUNCE] My retirement, and crash utility maintainership changes

d.hatayama at fujitsu.com d.hatayama at fujitsu.com
Mon May 18 06:45:47 UTC 2020


Hagio-san, Bhupesh,

(Sorry for delayed response because I had one week vacation last week...)

> > -----Original Message-----
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > Dave,
> > >
> > > > Initially Kazuhito will primarily be handling upstream github duties,
> > > > while Lianbo and Bhupesh will be handling Fedora, CentOS stream, and
> > > > RHEL maintenance.  All three will be involved in the acceptance of
> > > > patches posted on this mailing list.  Please welcome them in their
> > > > new roles; I am confident they will do a terrific job.
> > >
> > > Maybe, is it better to send patch set via github as PR from now on? I'm now writing
> > > zram patch set for x86-64 support.
> >
> > Hi Daisuke,
> >
> > Good question -- and one that I shall defer the answer to the new maintainers.
> >
> > Personally, I never accepted git pull requests because I always felt that
> > it was more valuable to expose proposed patches to the larger audience
> > that make up this mailing list.  So when PRs came in, I coerced the
> > submitter to use the list.
>
> I'm thinking that we continue this way as-is and I'd like to do so
> because of the same reason Dave says.
>
> Crash's watchers [1] receives Issues/PR emails, but there are 55 people
> now (although the number would increase if we use GitHub mainly),
> while the crash-utility mailing list has several hundreds members.
>
> (And I personally think that it's easier to discuss things via email,
>      which I'm used to.)
>
> If it's hard for us to continue the way or using GitHub looks much more
> efficient in the future, then we can shift it to a GitHub way.
>
> [1] https://github.com/crash-utility/crash/watchers
>
> Thanks,
> Kazu

I see. I'll send the next patch in this mailing list.

Thanks.
HATAYAMA, Daisuke






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