Re: Impressed. Any info other than source?

[David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com>]

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Hans Reiser wrote:
| Info wrote:
|
|> Hello,
|>
|> I am really impressed by what you're doing with Reiserfs.
|> It is a wonderful mix of the immediately usable and great
|> promise for the future.
|> I am somewhat amazed that this is such a low traffic list.
|> Am I missing some other place where this stuff is discussed?
|>
|>
| Not really.  We are in a period of stabilizing rather than designing new
| stuff.  Unfortunately, one always spends far more time stabilizing than
| designing.....
|
|> Quoting from your website:
|>
|>
|>> Looking at the coin from the other side, we want to make
|>> it an order of magnitude less work to add features to ReiserFS so
|>> that both users and Namesys can add at least an order of magnitude
|>> more of them.
|>>
|>
|>
|> To this end is there any documentation between the general
|> descriptions (.../v4/v4.html and .../whitepaper.html) and
|> the actual source code? I have searched your site and the
|> web (although I haven't tried BitKeeper yet) and can't find
|> anything. It is not the actual internal workings so much as
|> how to modify a plugin that I'm interested in. Any sort of
|> howto type documentation?
|>
|>
| The source code is intended to be very readable.  I don't think there
| should be any documentation besides web site and source code.

I agree in principle, but in practice, a short "HACKING" file would be
nice with any project.  You have documentation for how to install, even
though it's a standard kernel patch & config, so why not a quick
"foo/bar/main.c might be a good place to start" kind of doc?

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