On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 11:53:51AM -0700, Nick Terrell wrote: > On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 11:35 AM Eric Biggers <ebigg...@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 years out of date again 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
