To offload blktests maintenance overhead from Omar, I volunteer to take
the blktests maintainer role. Replace Omar's name and e-mail address in
CONTRIBUTING.md with mine. Also note his original authorship in
README.md.
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@opensource.wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Shin'ichiro Kawasaki <shinichiro.kawasaki@wdc.com>
You can contribute to blktests by opening a pull request to the [blktests
GitHub repository](https://github.com/osandov/blktests) or by sending patches
-to the <linux-block@vger.kernel.org> mailing list and Omar Sandoval
-<osandov@fb.com>. If sending patches, please generate the patch with `git
+to the <linux-block@vger.kernel.org> mailing list and Shin'ichiro Kawasaki
+<shinichiro.kawasaki@wdc.com>. If sending patches, please generate the patch with `git
format-patch --subject-prefix="PATCH blktests"`. Consider configuring git to do
this for you with `git config --local format.subjectPrefix "PATCH blktests"`.
blktests is a test framework for the Linux kernel block layer and storage
stack. It is inspired by the [xfstests](https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfstests-dev.git/)
-filesystem testing framework.
+filesystem testing framework. It was originally written by Omar Sandoval and
+[announced in
+2017](https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/20170512184905.GA15267@vader.DHCP.thefacebook.com/).
## Getting Started