There is a lot of fiscal uncertainty in a project like ours. We get money in big chunks with no knowledge of how long we need to make it last. There is this nagging worry that I could get unlucky for the wrong 6 month stretch, and have to lay off everyone. This worry is especially acute during the midst of a tech bust (sponsors dry up even for successful projects) which is also during the debugging phase for reiser4 (will it be debugged by June, or will it take as long as V3, or longer....).
For V3 we are going to fix any bugs that come in (one known bug remains that seems to be elusive and will distract our lead programmer from V4 this month), put in Oleg's write patch and chris's patches, fix fsck when it fails, and that is it. V3 will be our feature frozen FS for mission critical servers.
Every resource we have is going to go into getting V4 done and stable so that we can sell it in the summer. Hopefully we will make it. One worry is that while V4 will be much more stable by design (transactions, fsck friendly node format with mkfsids and transaction ids (that make it easier to figure out when two version of a file collide which one to keep), etc.), V3 will be more stable in implementation for quite some time.
It must suck having a free project get only slight funding. All of aYou are free to donate your hard earned money to them.
sudden a whole load of geeks get very angry and demanding. I wish I could
help, but hey it's more fun to troll.^H^H^H I've got better things to do.
- Anders
-- Hans
