On Tue,  7 May 2024 17:35:08 +0200
Mariusz Tkaczyk [off-list ref] wrote:

Thanks to Song and Paul, we created organization for md-raid on Github.
This is a perfect place to maintain mdadm. I would like announce moving
mdadm development to Github.

It is already forked, feel free to explore:
https://github.com/md-raid-utilities/mdadm

Github is powerful and it has well integrated CI. On the repo, you can
already find a pull request which will add compilation and code style
tests (Thanks to Kinga!).
This is MORE than we have now so I believe that with the change mdadm
stability and code quality will be increased. The participating method
will be simplified, it is really easy to create pull request. Also,
anyone can fork repo with base tests included and properly configured.

Note that Song and Paul are working on a per patch CI system using GitHub
Actions and a dedicated rack of servers to enable fast container, VM and
bare metal testing for both mdraid and mdadm. Having mdadm on GitHub will
help with that integration.

Patches sent to ML will be accepted but Github Pull Requests are
preferred so please use mailing list only if it is necessary. I will
setup GitHub to send email to the mailing list on each new PR so that
everyone is still aware of pending patches via the mailing list.

As a kernel.org mdadm maintainer, I will keep kernel.org repo and Github
in-sync for both master/main branches. Although they will be kept
in sync, developers should consider GitHub/main effective immediately
after merging this patchset.

I have strong confidence that it is good change for mdadm but I
understand that review flow will be worse.

Thanks all for comments!

Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Cc: Paul E Luse <redacted>
Cc: Paul Menzel <redacted>
Cc: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Cc: Kinga Tanska <redacted>
Cc: Jes Sorensen <redacted>

v2: Highlight that linux-raid@kernel.org remains as main place for
    questions and discussions.
v3: Accept patches sent through Mailing List and missed RFC tag.

I'm scared that I'm doing it but I need to finish what I started.

I know that I'm pushing some of you to make it happen. I don't feel comfortable
with this but changes like this requires some self-confidence. I believe that it
is right thing to do.

This is not one way ticket, we can always take step back if after the time we
will realize that my decision was wrong or review flow is awful. There will be
adjustments for sure.

Thanks you all for helping me to make this happen. I will not push you to use
Github but I encourage you to try if you can.

Applied!

Thanks,
Mariusz