userspace trees

Ben Myers bpm at sgi.com
Thu Sep 13 15:10:29 CDT 2012


Hey Eric & Christoph,

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 12:54:22PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On 9/13/12 12:53 PM, Ben Myers wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Sounds like a plan.  Will you make sure everything gets re-synced from kernel.org
> so nothing is lost?

~/dmapi$ git pull korg master


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