I’ve said this previously, and I’ll say it again: we’re severely under-resourced. Not just XFS, the whole fsdevel community. As a developer and later a maintainer, I’ve learnt the hard way that there is a very large amount of non-coding work is necessary to build a good filesystem. There’s enough not-really-coding work for several people. Instead, we lean hard on maintainers to do all that work. That might’ve worked acceptably for the first 20 years, but it doesn’t now.

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Dave and I are both burned out. I’m not sure Dave ever got past the 2017 burnout that lead to his resignation. Remarkably, he’s still around. Is this (extended burnout) where I want to be in 2024? 2030? Hell no.

  • cmeerw
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    1 year ago

    the email lists:

    However, every one of these reports has to be triaged, analyzed, and dealt with.

    I don’t think non-coding work means non-technical work - you’ll likely still need to dig deep into the technical details to actually be able to help

    There is also a link to docs: add maintainer entry profile for XFS