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

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.