From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: Hi!
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:25:50 -0400
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Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
To: Eric Anopolsky <erpo41@gmail.com>
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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