From: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
To: Eric Anopolsky <erpo41@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Hi!
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:25:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1219256750.7854.7.camel@think.oraclecorp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1219221805.15514.13.camel@telesto>
On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 02:43 -0600, Eric Anopolsky wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm new here. For the past few months I've been contributing some code
> and discussion to the ZFS-fuse project, but Sun's silence on the
> licensing issue has left a bad taste in my mouth. I'm ready to switch
> over to the light side of the force, but I have a couple of questions.
>
> 1. I've seen and modified the ZFS source code. Even if I never look at
> it again, could that poison potential contributions to btrfs?
>
For now, yes, reading and changing the ZFS source code is not a good
idea for people that want to contribute to btrfs.
> 2. What needs doing? Easy stuff first, please. I've never done kernel
> coding.
Testing, discussing and reporting bugs are a great first step.
-chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-20 18:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-20 8:43 Hi! Eric Anopolsky
2008-08-20 18:25 ` Chris Mason [this message]
2008-08-21 10:47 ` Hi! Miguel Sousa Filipe
2008-08-24 7:02 ` Hi! Steve Long
2008-08-25 21:56 ` Hi! Miguel Sousa Filipe
2008-09-04 19:07 ` Testsuite Steve Long
2008-08-25 9:06 ` Testsuite (was: Re: Hi!) Steve Long
2008-08-25 12:31 ` Chris Mason
2008-08-25 17:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
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