Thanks Stephen and Eric. My intent is to produce a community. The development effort will be in-house, then released as open source once it is completed.
I have been asked by Stephen Hahn to articulate how a CIFS community is needed, meaningful, and separate. It is needed in the sense that, currently, there is no place to post specifically about CIFS/smbfs. Right now the only option for finding relevant material is to do a site search for 'CIFS', and for posting you can make a blog or a thread. I guarantee that we'd have a small, interested community using this right off the bat. I suspect it would grow in time. It would be meaningful to solaris CIFS client users as they would have a place to exchange experiences and a way to contact the Solaris open source community with feedback. Even before we have released, it was already quite motivating to hear various people express their interest on this thread and I passed their enthusiasm on to the development team. :) It would be separate, because CIFS is not ZFS, it is not UFS, it is not SVM, and it is not NFS. It is SMBFS, however, and I don't see a SMBFS community, otherwise I would have just used that one. Furthermore, these other FS's have communities, so unless we want to send the message out that CIFS will be a second class citizen on Solaris, I think it would be reasonable to match the level of exposure this gets on the site with the level of exposure of these other communities. In summary, I believe a community would be ideal. If for some reason, it is perceived that there isn't enough evidence to justify one right now, there is no doubt in my mind that there will be enough evidence to justify one once it's released. For example, I have already been asked to start preparing presentations about CIFS and it's integration with the Solaris kernel. It would be nice to refer the audience to a location they can get more information from and interact with as the need arises. I believe it would be ideal to get it started now instead of throwing one together at the last minute to handle the demand. Here is a shot at the header text that could be at the top of the community: ------------------ The Common Internet File System (CIFS), also known as the Server Message Block File System (SMBFS), is used today to access servers employing the extended SMB protocol, such as Windows file shares, or Window's Distributed File System (DFS), if DFS-aware. There are several CIFS client and server implementations across numerous platforms. The distributed nature of the work leads to many interoperability situations, which has brought us to having a CIFS community. The various players in the CIFS world gather once a year for interoperability testing at Connectathon'™'. Welcome, we look forward to your contributions or questions. Information resources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIFS ... etc Click here to view community organizers(link) ------------------ Mark Sweeney ----- Original Message ----- From: Eric Boutilier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 11:34 pm Subject: Re: CIFS group creation request. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org > > you need to decide whether your efforts require a project > > or a community. If your intent is to produce code or > > a structured best practice document or some other form > > of collaboratively authored product, then I recommend > > that you request a CIFS project, in which case you need > > to send mail to this alias like that of the network-sip project > > > > http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=4968&tstart=0 > > > > and find a seconder. > > And for further reference see these "forerunner" projects: > http://opensolaris.org/os/project/opengrok/ > http://opensolaris.org/os/project/ethbridge/ > > So CIFS should be a project (as opposed to a community), correct? > > ----------------------------------------------------- > From: Mark Sweeney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed Jan 11 11:23:29 2006 > Subject: CIFS group creation request. > > The Kernel/Networking insight group at Sun is developing > a Solaris native CIFS client. > > The codebase we have started with is the Darwin OpenBSD > port, which builds upon code originally developed by > Boris Popov. > > So, I want to start an OpenSolaris group! > > Boris has expressed interest in hearing what's going on, > and maybe we'll hear from a couple of the folks at Apple > and collaborate or people interested in using this kind > of functionality. It's always great to hear people > going Cool! (for me anyhow) > > Anyhow, the web pages say to email here to get things set > up, so please let me know what I have to do to proceed. > > Mark Sweeney > ---------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
