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XFS maintainer, Darrik Wong, steps down

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Key takeaway (after reading the headline):

“It seems I have to clarify my previous message. I'm stepping down as XFS maintainer. I'm /continuing/ as a senior developer and reviewer for XFS.”

> For now, I will continue to review patches and will try to get online fsck, parent pointers, and realtime volume modernisation merged.

Thank you for all your work

I wonder if this is in any way related to the fact that ̶r̶e̶d̶h̶a̶t̶ IBM cut down their OpenSource staff, afaik they are the biggest OS that uses XFS as their default FS.

Darrick Wong works for Oracle, so probably not.

"This is an extraordinary way to destroy everything."

What does that mean?

I couldn't tell either; my best guesses were:

-by struggling to do too much for too long DW believed he was setting xfs up for failure

-by stepping out of most of what he has been doing he believes xfs will fail due to lack of interest in other people picking up the slack

I really couldn't say which is more probable though. Perhaps both?

  I burned out years ago trying to juggle the roles senior developer,
  reviewer, tester, triager (crappily), release manager, and (at times)
  manager liaison.  There's enough work here in this one subsystem for a
  team of 20 FT, but instead we're squeezed to half that.  I thought if I
  could hold on just a bit longer I could help to maintain the focus on
  long term development to improve the experience for users.  I was wrong.

I understand it says that working on a filesystem, you get the power to really fuck up people's lives (by introducing a bug). Other way of saying "this is really fun, you get a lot of impact and therefore a lot of responsibility".

I don't know what it means but it is his usual mail signature so not related to his statements here.

Looks like his name may be spelled wrong in the title.

(Yeah, should be "Darrick," not "Darrik.")

Wow, I'm way out of date - when did Dave Chinner step down as XFS maintainer?

  > commit 721a0edfbe1f302b93274ce75e0d62843ca63e0d
  > Author: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
  > Date:   Tue Jan 3 18:39:34 2017 -0800
  >
  >     xfs: update MAINTAINERS
  > 
  >     I am taking over as XFS maintainer from Dave Chinner[1], so update
  >     contact information and git tree pointers.
  > 
  >     [1] http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1612.1/04390.html
  > 
  >     Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
  >

Interesting, thanks!

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