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Date:   Wed, 14 Apr 2021 12:04:38 -0700
From:   Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
To:     Nick Terrell <nickrterrell@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [GIT PULL][PATCH v9 0/3] Update to zstd-1.4.10
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On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 11:53:51AM -0700, Nick Terrell wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 11:35 AM Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 11:01:29AM -0700, Nick Terrell wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I would really like to make some progress on this and get it merged.
> > > This patchset offsers:
> > > * 15-30% better decompression speed
> > > * 3 years of zstd bug fixes and code improvements
> > > * Allows us to import zstd directly from upstream so we don't fall 3
> > > years out of date again
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Nick
> > >
> >
> > I think it would help get it merged if someone actually volunteered to maintain
> > it.  As-is there is no entry in MAINTAINERS for this code.
> 
> I was discussing with Chris Mason about volunteering to maintain the
> code myself.
> We wanted to wait until this series got merged before going that
> route, because there
> was already a lot of comments about it, and I didn't want to appear to
> be trying to bypass
> any review or criticisms. But, please let me know what you think.
> 

I expect that most people would like to see a commitment to maintain this code
before merging.  The usual way to do that is to add a MAINTAINERS entry.

Otherwise it is 27000 lines of code dumped on other people to maintain.

- Eric