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On 12/16/2015 07:36 PM, Niels de Vos
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Hi, Many GUI tools provide an "About" box that displays some information about the project. Some applications (Wireshark for example) go an extra step by including a list of all people that contributed patches. That is quite a nice way for contributors to see the appreciation of their work. I think it would be really awesome if we could do something similar. We have our reserved+hidden ".glusterfs" directory where all access is denied. We could populate this directory with static compiled-in contents. When accessed from a client, the licenses, versions, authors and other bits could be displayed. A normal readdir should still not list the directory at all (no change from current behaviour). Any thoughts? I think It would be better to revive the who-wrote-glusterfs reports that Vijay used to send on the mailing list instead of statically adding contributor names to code. We could have a `gluster --credits` or `gluster--help` cli that points to gluster.org and maybe add a button thingy on the website which when clicked runs the who-wrote-glusterfs.sh on <whatever-branch> and displays the result. Things like version numbers and licenses are/should be covered in gluster--version. But yes, if we do want to expose this information via the mount point, then maybe /mount/.meta is a good place. My 2 cents. Ravi Niels --
> : Any porters out there should feel happier knowing that DEC is shipping > : me an AlphaPC that I intend to try getting linux running on: this will > : definitely help flush out some of the most flagrant unportable stuff. > : The Alpha is much more different from the i386 than the 68k stuff is, so > : it's likely to get most of the stuff fixed. > > It's posts like this that almost convince us non-believers that there > really is a god. (A follow-up by alovell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Anthony Lovell, to Linus's remarks about porting) |
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