Re: [Crash-utility] [ANNOUNCE] My retirement, and crash utility maintainership changes

2020-05-18 Thread d.hatay...@fujitsu.com
Hagio-san, Bhupesh,

(Sorry for delayed response because I had one week vacation last week...)

> > -Original Message-
> > - Original Message -
> > > Dave,
> > >
> > > > Initially Kazuhito will primarily be handling upstream github duties,
> > > > while Lianbo and Bhupesh will be handling Fedora, CentOS stream, and
> > > > RHEL maintenance.  All three will be involved in the acceptance of
> > > > patches posted on this mailing list.  Please welcome them in their
> > > > new roles; I am confident they will do a terrific job.
> > >
> > > Maybe, is it better to send patch set via github as PR from now on? I'm 
> > > now writing
> > > zram patch set for x86-64 support.
> >
> > Hi Daisuke,
> >
> > Good question -- and one that I shall defer the answer to the new 
> > maintainers.
> >
> > Personally, I never accepted git pull requests because I always felt that
> > it was more valuable to expose proposed patches to the larger audience
> > that make up this mailing list.  So when PRs came in, I coerced the
> > submitter to use the list.
>
> I'm thinking that we continue this way as-is and I'd like to do so
> because of the same reason Dave says.
>
> Crash's watchers [1] receives Issues/PR emails, but there are 55 people
> now (although the number would increase if we use GitHub mainly),
> while the crash-utility mailing list has several hundreds members.
>
> (And I personally think that it's easier to discuss things via email,
>  which I'm used to.)
>
> If it's hard for us to continue the way or using GitHub looks much more
> efficient in the future, then we can shift it to a GitHub way.
>
> [1] https://github.com/crash-utility/crash/watchers
>
> Thanks,
> Kazu

I see. I'll send the next patch in this mailing list.

Thanks.
HATAYAMA, Daisuke



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Re: [Crash-utility] [ANNOUNCE] My retirement, and crash utility maintainership changes

2020-05-18 Thread d.hatay...@fujitsu.com
Dave,

(Sorry for delayed response because I had one week vacation last week...)

> - Original Message -
> > Dave,
> >
> > > Initially Kazuhito will primarily be handling upstream github duties,
> > > while Lianbo and Bhupesh will be handling Fedora, CentOS stream, and
> > > RHEL maintenance.  All three will be involved in the acceptance of
> > > patches posted on this mailing list.  Please welcome them in their
> > > new roles; I am confident they will do a terrific job.
> >
> > Maybe, is it better to send patch set via github as PR from now on? I'm now 
> > writing
> > zram patch set for x86-64 support.
>
> Hi Daisuke,
>
> Good question -- and one that I shall defer the answer to the new maintainers.
>
> Personally, I never accepted git pull requests because I always felt that
> it was more valuable to expose proposed patches to the larger audience
> that make up this mailing list.  So when PRs came in, I coerced the
> submitter to use the list.

Hagio-san and Bhupesh says they want to keep the current way
based the mailing list, and so I'll send the next patch set by
email.

> >
> > > Since the https://people.redhat.com/anderson web page will be
> > > decommissioned after my departure, its contents have been moved
> > > to be co-located with the crash-utility github site:
> > >
> > >   https://crash-utility.github.io
> >
> > Do you plan to set a redirection from the current page? Rpm packages for
> > crash's extension modules have URL in each rpm information  like below and 
> > need to
> > modify it accordingly:
> >
> > # yum info crash-gcore-command
> > Loaded plugins: langpacks, product-id, search-disabled-repos, 
> > subscription-manager
> > Available Packages
> > Name: crash-gcore-command
> > Arch: x86_64
> > Version : 1.3.1
> > Release : 0.el7
> > Size: 41 k
> > Repo: rhel-7-server-rpms/7Server/x86_64
> > Summary : Gcore extension module for the crash utility
> > URL : 
> > http://people.redhat.com/anderson/extensions/crash-gcore-command-1.3.1.tar.gz
> > License : GPLv2
> > Description : Command for creating a core dump file of a user-space 
> > task that
> > : was running in a kernel dumpfile.
>
> Yes, when the packages are updated, the URLs will have to be changed.  During 
> the build
> procedure, the package verification will fail if the upstream URL is defunct.
>

Thanks. I'll make sure that when we update the packages next, and
redirection will be helpful.

> >
> > Also, when I want to release a new version of crash extnesion module, I 
> > send it to Hagio-san via
> > this mailing list as in the past, and then Hagio-san modifies the "crash 
> > extension modules" page.
> > Is this understanding correct?
>
> Yes, and then Kazu, Liang or Bhupesh will be able to update that page.

I see.

Thanks.
HATAYAMA, Daisuke



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