Re: [PATCH-for-9.1 v2 2/3] migration: Remove RDMA protocol handling

Peter Xu <peterx(a)redhat.com&gt; writes: > On Mon, Apr 29, 2024 at 08:08:10AM -0500, Michael Galaxy wrote: >> Hi All (and Peter), > > Hi, Michael, > >> >> My name is Michael Galaxy (formerly Hines). Yes, I changed my last name >> (highly irregular for a male) and yes, that's my real last name: >> https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrgalaxy/) >> >> I'm the original author of the RDMA implementation. I've been discussing >> with Yu Zhang for a little bit about potentially handing over maintainership >> of the codebase to his team. >> >> I simply have zero access to RoCE or Infiniband hardware at all, >> unfortunately. so I've never been able to run tests or use what I wrote at >> work, and as all of you know, if you don't have a way to test something, >> then you can't maintain it. >> >> Yu Zhang put a (very kind) proposal forward to me to ask the community if >> they feel comfortable training his team to maintain the codebase (and run >> tests) while they learn about it. > > The "while learning" part is fine at least to me. IMHO the "ownership" to > the code, or say, taking over the responsibility, may or may not need 100% > mastering the code base first. There should still be some fundamental > confidence to work on the code though as a starting point, then it's about > serious use case to back this up, and careful testings while getting more > familiar with it. How much experience we expect of maintainers depends on the subsystem and other circumstances. The hard requirement isn't experience, it's trust. See the recent attack on xz. I do not mean to express any doubts whatsoever on Yu Zhang's integrity! I'm merely reminding y'all what's at stake.