Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Aug 2005 03:49:57 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: New maintainer needed for the Linux smb filesystem |
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On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 08:01:57PM -0500, Steven French wrote: >... > I don't mind fixing any major smbfs bugs that are found as needed, the code > is not hard to follow, but I would rather focus on the three current cifs > priorities: >...
It sounds as if you would be a great choice as new smbfs maintainer - you know both the protocols involved and the Linux kernel.
Noone expects big feature additions to the smbfs code, maintainership consists of: - reviewing patches - handling bugs (the 16 open bugs in the kernel Bugzilla give a rough impression of what problems people face)
cifs might be the future, but until it supports a superset of smbfs users require smbfs - and a good smbfs makes their life easier.
cu Adrian
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