[lustre-devel] Working on client merge

[Julia Lawall]

On Wed, 10 Jun 2015, Simmons, James A. wrote:

>
> >Where would be a good place to get started with helping merge the client
> into mainline?
>
>  
>
> Hi Ben
>
>  
>
>      Thanks for helping out for this work. I added people in the chain that
> have contributed a great
>
> deal to the upstream client so we can coordinate our work. Also I like to
> make people aware
>
> a lustre IRC channel does exist.   Andreas can supply the details about the
> IRC channel. Currently
>
> my work has been focused on the libcfs/lnet layer. I had discuss early with
> Mike Shuey  since he
>
> was also working in that area but will be migrating to the lustre core.
>
>  
>
>     Since more people are getting involved we need to find  a way to break
> up the work to avoid
>
> duplicate work. Should the work be broken  up by layer, i.e lov, mdc, or by
> task such as removing
>
> specific checkpatch errors with files?

For the work I have done with Coccinelle, it is more convenient to do the
whole thing.  Breaking things up by layer is not helpful.

This is just a data point, though. It doesn't have to imply anything about
how others work on the code.

julia