David Summers writes:
> Would anyone be interested if a UserFS CVS repository were set up?
>
> From watching other projects, it seems that such a repository might help
> consolidate some of the patches and help the UserFS developers coordinate.
> Maybe a web page could be set up and/or a bug page (bugzilla?) and a
> UserFS file system directory set up?
>
> Comments, Suggestions, Good points, Bad points?
>
> With some further discussion, I might be willing to set up such a CVS
> repository and maybe a web server if someone would maintain it and/or help
> me (much help) maintain it.
What we need is not a CVS repository. What we need is a maintainer.
CVS doesn't consolidate patches automatically, although it does help
with the scut-work of keeping track of changes. Consolidating patches
and coordinating have to be done by people, and they are hard work.
Same is true of Bugzilla. It does the boring part, remembering what
bugs have been reported and coordinating communications among the
people who care, but fixing the bugs and testing the fixes have to be
done by actual people.
Your last line is most telling: you're looking for "someone" to do the
work of running a CVS repository and/or web server. Heck, I'd be happy
to host these things too. The hard part is finding the "someone".
It appears that, at the moment, nobody cares enough about userfs to
take responsibility for its maintenance. So we can set up
repositories, bug databases, and web pages to our heart's content; it
won't matter.
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