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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, samba@samba.org,
	Urban.Widmark@enlight.net
Subject: Re: New maintainer needed for the Linux smb filesystem
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 03:49:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050822014956.GI5726@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF200CE886.6A353FBA-ON87257065.0005812F-86257065.0005B594@us.ibm.com>

On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 08:01:57PM -0500, Steven French wrote:
>...
> I don't mind fixing any major smbfs bugs that are found as needed, the code
> is not hard to follow, but I would rather focus on the three current cifs
> priorities:
>...

It sounds as if you would be a great choice as new smbfs maintainer - 
you know both the protocols involved and the Linux kernel.

Noone expects big feature additions to the smbfs code, maintainership 
consists of:
- reviewing patches
- handling bugs (the 16 open bugs in the kernel Bugzilla give a rough
  impression of what problems people face)

cifs might be the future, but until it supports a superset of smbfs
users require smbfs - and a good smbfs makes their life easier.

cu
Adrian

-- 

       "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
                                       Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-08-22 23:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-21 14:34 Adrian Bunk
2005-08-21 19:46 ` Andrew Morton
2005-08-22  1:06   ` Dave Jones
     [not found]   ` <OF200CE886.6A353FBA-ON87257065.0005812F-86257065.0005B594@us.ibm.com>
2005-08-22  1:49     ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2005-08-22  3:09     ` [Samba] " Gerald (Jerry) Carter
2005-08-23  1:11       ` Ian Kent
2005-08-23 15:08         ` Gerald (Jerry) Carter
2005-08-24  0:47           ` Ian Kent
     [not found] <20050821143457.GA5726@stusta.de.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2005-08-21 20:26 ` Andi Kleen
2005-08-22  0:48   ` Steven Rostedt
2005-08-24  3:39 Steve French
2005-08-24  4:19 ` Hal Wigoda

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