Guidelines For Maintainers
GlusterFS has maintainers, sub-maintainers and release maintainers to manage the project's codebase. Sub-maintainers are the owners for specific areas/components of the source tree. Maintainers operate across all components in the source tree.Release maintainers are the owners for various release branches (release-x.y) present in the GlusterFS repository.
In the guidelines below, release maintainers and sub-maintainers are also implied when there is a reference to maintainers unless it is explicitly called out.
Guidelines that Maintainers are expected to adhere to
1. Ensure qualitative and timely management of patches sent for review.
2. For merging patches into the repository, it is expected of maintainers to:
a> Merge patches of owned components only.
b> Seek approvals from all maintainers before merging a patchset spanning multiple components.
c> Ensure that regression tests pass for all patches before merging.
d> Ensure that regression tests accompany all patch submissions.
e> Ensure that documentation is updated for a noticeable change in user perceivable behavior or design.
f> Encourage code unit tests from patch submitters to improve the overall quality of the codebase.
g> Not merge patches written by themselves until there is a +2 Code Review vote by other reviewers.
3. The responsibility of merging a patch into a release branch in normal circumstances will be that of the release maintainer's. Only in exceptional situations, maintainers & sub-maintainers will merge patches into a release branch.
4. Release maintainers will ensure approval from appropriate maintainers before merging a patch into a release branch.
5. Maintainers have a responsibility to the community, it is expected of maintainers to:
a> Facilitate the community in all aspects.
b> Be very active and visible in the community.
c> Be objective and consider the larger interests of the community ahead of individual interests.
d> Be receptive to user feedback.
e> Address concerns & issues affecting users.
f> Lead by example.
Queries on Guidelines
Any questions or comments regarding these guidelines can be routed to gluster-devel at gluster dot org.
Patches in Gerrit
Gerrit can be used to list patches that need reviews and/or can get merged. Some queries have been prepared for this, edit the search box in Gerrit to make your own variation:
An other option can be used in combination with the Gerrit queries, and has support for filename/directory matching (the queries above do not). Go to the settings in your Gerrit profile, and enter filters like these:
