On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 06:52:16 -0700 Eric Hopper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 01:04:45AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > The namesys engineers continue to maintain reiser4 and I continue to > > receive patches for it. > > > > Right now I'd say that the main blockages for reiser4 are a) the developers > > aren't presently asking for inclusion (afaik) and b) lack of reviewing > > effort from other kernel developers. > > If someone else started asking for it to be included and responded to > requests for the various code changes required to increase its quality > to the required level, wouldn't that be enough? Basically, if someone > forked it. > > Or does it specifically have to be namesys engineers? That's not where the problem lies - the namesys guys are responsive and play well with others. But they haven't received any "requests for the various code changes" in over a year. And I'm in the same boat as most everyone else: I haven't looked at the reiser4 code in ages. Right now I don't have anything like a list of outstanding technical issues. To get it unstuck we'd need a general push, get people looking at and testing the code, get the vendors to have a serious think about it, etc. We could do that - it'd require that the namesys people (and I) start making threatening noises about merging it, I guess. Or we could move all the reiser4 code into kernel/sched.c - that seems to get people fired up. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
