From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1ZEi3e-0008IW-7q for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Jul 2015 14:02:26 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50588) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZEi3c-0008IM-6b for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Jul 2015 14:02:25 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZEi3Y-00026c-VM for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Jul 2015 14:02:24 -0400 Received: from mail-la0-x236.google.com ([2a00:1450:4010:c03::236]:35526) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZEi3Y-00025J-Nh for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Jul 2015 14:02:20 -0400 Received: by lahh5 with SMTP id h5so21119119lah.2 for ; Mon, 13 Jul 2015 11:02:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=4JxESevooWfdgpJZ5m9jdkTrateDs9xzoFkovC11mx4=; b=laWWEMfUKeLE3jqsNBUCvGtq7uZe0KI5nYEx2KY0fVMLafCV7enewi1tqGaBwcnPI3 4uIoQBlFvZyXr7UsJWlk6S8t9AyhFoTiJ/fnyrxcRrBls+0uI5jZ+B5HDYpQY+WroAbb oIApzD64JKm4bDxV+1yjAmp1pXSwMCtauxfc46mTTh7vYl7jq2wRhMJ27/6kM9Z/6CIi sFHCn6PvlchL1858Q9DqiPo2ZXbotJvr7Lo+0grFEovKH/F3tDi40/b+1x8LPdvHk8Cz L9e8ZzJjLLTT5aW12mLc9UpZlWpANMOGuYs+2JfLaVBTfmE/Q86Nc+nBq1iz3K+TSne7 8AWA== X-Received: by 10.112.40.82 with SMTP id v18mr22878248lbk.11.1436810538109; Mon, 13 Jul 2015 11:02:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from opensuse.site (ppp91-76-24-71.pppoe.mtu-net.ru. [91.76.24.71]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id w7sm4919444lag.42.2015.07.13.11.02.17 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 13 Jul 2015 11:02:17 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 21:02:13 +0300 From: Andrei Borzenkov To: Tom Davies Subject: Re: Rewrite of OS-prober module? Message-ID: <20150713210213.19571e5f@opensuse.site> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.11.0 (GTK+ 2.24.28; x86_64-suse-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:4010:c03::236 Cc: grub-devel@gnu.org X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 18:02:25 -0000 =D0=92 Mon, 13 Jul 2015 14:09:04 +0100 Tom Davies =D0=BF=D0=B8=D1=88=D0=B5=D1=82: > Hi :) > I have a fairly shy friend who has done a re-write of the os-prober module > for his own needs after doing a lot of study about EFI systems. >=20 os-prober itself is not part of grub.=20 > He is already moving on to other things but i think it's a shame he seems > to think he can't submit the whole thing without; > 1. breaking it down into components and submitting each separately and Dividing large change in smaller incremental changes helps to understand, review and troubleshoot it. As usual, there is no universal recipe suitable for every case. > 2. getting bogged down into being the only maintainer of it. >=20 This depends on code being useful and interesting to others and he will never know until he makes code available. ... >=20 > So is there anything i can suggest to my friend or any links i can send h= im > or anything i can do to help him give the code to the project? If he wants to contribute to GRUB, just send patches to this list. Otherwise simply publish this code; there are enough possibilities to do it. Posting link here would open up opportunity for others to look and possibly contribute.