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SubjectRe: Listmaster request: Do not blacklist
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In lists.linux.kernel.development, you wrote:
> James Blackwell wrote:
>
>>Do you think Hans Reiser
>>felt like you were doing the right thing when he had to change his
>>timeline on Reiserfs so as to avoid competing with your project as long
>>as possible?
>>
>>
>>
> I did not change my timeline. Though I was tempted to move version
> control up in the priority queue, it nonetheless will remain low until
> the right developer comes along, or other things that also need doing
> are moved out of that queue.

I'm very sorry. I could have sworn you had said something along the
lines of 'Some day I want to put version control into reiser, which
could technically be considered a competitor to bitkeeper. I have a lot
of other things to do with reiserfs as well so I'll do those first'. But
when I went back through the list, I couldn't find it.

The closest to that I could find was the following:

> reiser4 will not contain version control. I don't know when version
> control will go into ReiserFS. I do think it should go in eventually
> though, as it makes distributed filesystems more effective if there is
> version control functionality. We would do something that in no way
> resembled BK. We would do it after implementing the core distributed
> tree algorithms. Probably not going to happen in less than 3-5 years.
> ...
> There are so many features missing from ReiserFS, and I am not really
> picky about what order they go in..... With Reiser4 we finally have

I must have gotten the issues involved with reiserfs confused with
another project.

Again, I'm sorry I got your position wrong.

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