From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751383AbVHVXCa (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Aug 2005 19:02:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932235AbVHVXC3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Aug 2005 19:02:29 -0400 Received: from zeus1.kernel.org ([204.152.191.4]:24975 "EHLO zeus1.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751184AbVHVXC2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Aug 2005 19:02:28 -0400 Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 03:49:57 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Steven French Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, samba@samba.org, Urban.Widmark@enlight.net Subject: Re: New maintainer needed for the Linux smb filesystem Message-ID: <20050822014956.GI5726@stusta.de> References: <20050821124657.22f1a095.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed