Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] MAINTAINERS: Remove myself as block maintainer

[Niels de Vos]

On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 01:32:04PM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote:
> On Tue, 09/25 07:00, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> > Jeff Cody <address@hidden> writes:
> > 
> > > I'll not be involved in day-to-day qemu development.  Remove
> > > myself as maintainer from the remainder of the network block drivers
> > > (and vhdx), and revert them to the general block layer maintainership.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Jeff Cody <address@hidden>
> > > ---
> > >  MAINTAINERS | 14 --------------
> > >  1 file changed, 14 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > > index e93f79672f..6ef6932628 100644
> > > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > > @@ -1982,28 +1982,22 @@ F: block/vmdk.c
> > >  
> > >  RBD
> > >  M: Josh Durgin <address@hidden>
> > > -M: Jeff Cody <address@hidden>
> > >  L: address@hidden
> > >  S: Supported
> > >  F: block/rbd.c
> > > -T: git git://github.com/codyprime/qemu-kvm-jtc.git block
> > >  
> > >  Sheepdog
> > >  M: Hitoshi Mitake <address@hidden>
> > >  M: Liu Yuan <address@hidden>
> > > -M: Jeff Cody <address@hidden>
> > >  L: address@hidden
> > >  L: address@hidden
> > >  S: Supported
> > >  F: block/sheepdog.c
> > > -T: git git://github.com/codyprime/qemu-kvm-jtc.git block
> > >  
> > >  VHDX
> > > -M: Jeff Cody <address@hidden>
> > >  L: address@hidden
> > >  S: Supported
> > >  F: block/vhdx*
> > > -T: git git://github.com/codyprime/qemu-kvm-jtc.git block
> > 
> > Does "S: Supported" make sense without an M:?
> > 
> > >  
> > >  VDI
> > >  M: Stefan Weil <address@hidden>
> > > @@ -2034,34 +2028,26 @@ F: docs/interop/nbd.txt
> > >  T: git git://repo.or.cz/qemu/ericb.git nbd
> > >  
> > >  NFS
> > > -M: Jeff Cody <address@hidden>
> > >  M: Peter Lieven <address@hidden>
> > >  L: address@hidden
> > >  S: Maintained
> > >  F: block/nfs.c
> > > -T: git git://github.com/codyprime/qemu-kvm-jtc.git block
> > >  
> > >  SSH
> > >  M: Richard W.M. Jones <address@hidden>
> > > -M: Jeff Cody <address@hidden>
> > >  L: address@hidden
> > >  S: Supported
> > >  F: block/ssh.c
> > > -T: git git://github.com/codyprime/qemu-kvm-jtc.git block
> > >  
> > >  CURL
> > > -M: Jeff Cody <address@hidden>
> > >  L: address@hidden
> > >  S: Supported
> > >  F: block/curl.c
> > > -T: git git://github.com/codyprime/qemu-kvm-jtc.git block
> > 
> > Likewise.
> > 
> > >  GLUSTER
> > > -M: Jeff Cody <address@hidden>
> > >  L: address@hidden
> > >  S: Supported
> > >  F: block/gluster.c
> > > -T: git git://github.com/codyprime/qemu-kvm-jtc.git block
> > 
> > Likewise.
> > 
> > >  Null Block Driver
> > >  M: Fam Zheng <address@hidden>
> > 
> 
> Block drivers without an M: naturally fall under the overall maintainership of
> block layer (Kevin&Max), so IMO keeping the statuses is fine. Maybe CURL can 
> be
> degraded to Maintained, though.

For Gluster you can count on continued support from several developers
on the Gluster side when needed. I do not think we are (pro-)active
enough to claim maintainership of the driver.

Thanks,
Niels (one of the GlusterFS maintainers)