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SubjectRe: New maintainer needed for the Linux smb filesystem
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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