This is the first email to the efs-dev mailing list in almost two years, and in that time, there have been very few commits to the public git repositories as well.
After spending the last 2 years working on major improvements to EFS for my current consulting gig, I have once again re-released all of that work to the OSS world. However, given the complete mess that is openefs.org, and the lack of a real community, I am no longer going to use that site, and will in fact encourage anyone interested in my code to ignore it. I've published all of my latest work on github.com, and I'm in the process of moving all of the trac tickets to issues on github's system. I am doing these because I am almost certainly about to start a new gig where we will be using EFS as the foundation for a new global filesystem infrastructure, and I'm not interested in maintaining compatibility with the "official" (if that even makes any sense) openefs.org code base. I'm pretty sure BAC is still paying for openefs.org support via OSU-OSL, and as far as I am concerned, that's a waste of money at this point. It is clear by now that BAC has no interest in the code I've written, and I long ago ripped out all the EFS 2 compatibility code anyway. I am about to make major changes to efsdeploy and the EFS::Perl infrastructure as well, and these changes will be made with no commitment to backwards compatibility, either. In fact, the efs-core code base already has major namespace changes that aren't compatible with the old environment as well. I would like to formally suggest that we decommission that site, and preferably free up the domainname. If I can't get openefs.org back, I'll just use something else, but right now, there's really no need for a dedicated website for the product, since it has so few users, and no active community. If there is interest in keeping openefs.org up and running, then consider this an announcement that I am forking the code and going my own way.
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