From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda1.sgi.com [192.48.157.11]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id n3G4g7X8044536 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:42:17 -0500 Received: from mail.sandeen.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id ED99C1426272 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:43:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.sandeen.net (sandeen.net [209.173.210.139]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id tXShTf91KdNg19DJ for ; Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:43:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <49E6B6F7.6030500@sandeen.net> Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:41:27 -0500 From: Eric Sandeen MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: future of xfs, oss.sgi.com after sgi purchased? References: <49E65044.8080802@tlinx.org> In-Reply-To: <49E65044.8080802@tlinx.org> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: "Linda A. Walsh" Cc: xfs-oss Linda A. Walsh wrote: > Not one to beat about the bush, but curious from a practical sense, > > If sgi is being bought by another company, is there any idea about the plans > for the xfs file system or the source code on 'oss.sgi.com'? > > I'm _guessing_ that there is some interest in users and developers to keep xfs > alive after the 'sgi' moniker is purchased, but that begs the question about the > new company wanting to support the old 'sgi.com' websites including > oss.sgi.com. > > Is there a danger of oss.sgi.com suddenly being yanked offline with little to no > warning, such that community members should start keeping up-to-date, or is it > already mirrored? I'm assuming that the current source code repository only > exists on oss.sgi.com? Should it be mirrored on some other external open-source > site? sourceforge? google? mozilla? While I doubt that oss.sgi.com would abruptly vanish, there are nonetheless already git repos on kernel.org, which are sometimes even ahead of what's on oss.sgi.com ... xfs.org has a lot of content as well. Mailing list archives exist at various other sites. There are also ftp mirrors around, though I think that's less important. > Is completely worthless to discuss new, desired features in some of the utils? > Will it be possible to support the xfs codebase if its development no longer > becomes necessary to sgi (or its parent company)? If you look at commit logs or carefully read the mailing list over the last 6 months or so, I think you'll find that xfs maintenance and development is not wholly dependent on contributions from sgi employees. http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=history;f=fs/xfs;hb=HEAD -Eric _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs