Throughout OpenZFS/zfsonlinux's life, Brian Behlendorf has been nearly the sole manager of the day-to-day operations of the project. He's triaged bugs, reviewed PR's, found reviewers for PR's, given feedback to PR submitters, and decided when PR's are ready to be merged. And that's in addition to his work developing new ZFS features and fixing bugs!
As the project grows and the volume of PR's has increased, we need to spread the workload among more volunteers. To that end, I'm happy to announce three new OpenZFS maintainers: Mark Maybee, Tony Nguyen, and John Kennedy. They join existing maintainers Brian Behlendorf, Tony Hutter, and myself. As maintainers, we are responsible for giving feedback to PR submitters, deciding when a PR is ready to be merged, and merging it. Note that maintainers' work does not necessarily include reviewing the code of every PR in detail. We continue to rely on broad community participation by many experts, to thoroughly review the code of each PR. The maintainers' role is to help PR submitters find appropriate code reviewers, so you may find yourself being reminded about code review requests by these new maintainers :-) We have divided the codebase into several broad areas, with each maintainer assigned some areas of responsibility. Each PR will have a designated maintainer (using the "Assignees" feature of GitHub). This is the PR submitter's point of contact with the project for getting their PR merged. Brian Behlendorf - Other & catch-all Matt Ahrens - Advisory - Assigning PR’s to maintainers Tony Hutter - Backports - ZED Tony Nguyen - Platform-specific, shared, and imported kernel code (module/os/*, zcommon, ICP, LUA, zstd, etc) - Manpages & other documentation - Other userland scripts/commands (zed, arcstat, contrib/*, etc) Mark Maybee - Core platform-agnostic kernel code (module/zfs/*) John Kennedy - ZTS - Libzfs & consumers (zpool/zfs commands, etc) - Libzpool & consumers (ztest, zdb, libspl) - Developer tools (makefiles, packaging, github workflows/templates) About the new maintainers, who coincidentally all live in Colorado: Mark Maybee has been a developer on ZFS/OpenZFS since its infancy 20 years ago, working on ZFS at Sun, Oracle, Cray, HPE, and Delphix. In the early days he implemented the ZPL. More recently he has worked on DRAID. Tony Nguyen has worked on ZFS primarily as a performance engineer, at Sun, Nexenta, and Delphix. He has worked on the ZFS Performance Tests. John Kennedy has worked on ZFS primarily as a test/QA engineer, at Sun and Delphix. He implemented the ZFS Test Suite. --matt ------------------------------------------ openzfs: openzfs-developer Permalink: https://openzfs.topicbox.com/groups/developer/T5d274eb056cc6f4d-Mccd497515da5645f8159593d Delivery options: https://openzfs.topicbox.com/groups/developer/subscription
