userspace trees

[Ben Myers]

Hi Eric,

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 12:13:15PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On 9/13/12 2:50 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > It seems with the kernel.org account purge last year and me being way to
> > busy it seems like the -dev trees of the XFS userspace get very little
> > attention.  What do people think about retiring them and using the oss
> > trees exclusively again for now?  Right now the trees are getting a bit
> > out of sync which isn't a good thing.
>
> ISTR it was done in response to a .... fear of SGI being less responsive after
> a different type of account purge.  ;)  
> 
> If SGI wants to be responsible for merging all userspace patches as they
> come in on the list, I'm fine with going back to one tree on oss.

I discussed this with management.  SGI is willing to take on the responsibility
of merging all userspace patches.

I think retiring the -dev trees will resolve the out-of-sync issues we've been
having, and be less confusing for all involved.

Regards,
	Ben