Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 06:31:31 +1000
From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
To: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Cc: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@suse.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: clustered MD
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On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 10:01:51 -0500
David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com> wrote:

> Isn't this process what staging is for?

No it isn't.
Staging is useful for code drops.  i.e. multiple other developers want to
collaborate to improve some code that the maintainer doesn't want to accept.
So it goes into staging, "the community" gets a chance to use the kernel
development workflow to fix it up, and then it either is accepted by the
maintainer, or is eventually discarded.

cluster-MD has followed a very different process.  The relevant maintainer (me)
has been involved from the start, has provided input to the design, and
reviewed various initial implementations, and now thinks that the code is close
enough to ready for it to be included in the kernel (with suitable warnings).
That way I only need to review incremental changes, not the whole set of
patches from scratch each time.

What is your interest in this?  I'm always happy for open discussion and
varied input, but it would help to know to what extent you are a stake holder?
Also a slightly less adversarial tone would make me feel more comfortable,
though maybe I'm misreading your intent.

Thanks,
NeilBrown
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