Ah, the old "put up or shut up" argument....you got me. :-)
You are, of course, correct. I thought maybe if someone volunteered a
home then other people might join in with help (or maybe that has already
happened and not much came of it?).
I just really like the concept of the userfs even if the author says there
are problems with it.
Maybe after I finish my thesis I can have time to do something like be
a maintainer or something....
- David Summers
On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, Kragen Sitaker wrote:
> Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 19:14:08 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Kragen Sitaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: UserFS CVS Repository?
>
> 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.
>
> --
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kragen Sitaker <http://www.pobox.com/~kragen/>
> Sat Oct 16 1999
> 24 days until the Internet stock bubble bursts on Monday, 1999-11-08.
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>
>
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