On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 10:05:04PM +0530, Ravishankar N wrote: > On 12/16/2015 07:36 PM, Niels de Vos wrote: > >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. Well, I would like to see an AUTHORS list automatically generated by 'make dist' or the such. > 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. I think it would be nice to be able to see some information through a client mount point. Not everyone that uses Gluster has access to the storage servers, and it can benefit them to see some info. > But yes, if we do want to expose this information via the mount point, then > maybe /mount/.meta is a good place. Indeed, .meta would be better :) Thanks, Niels > > My 2 cents. > Ravi > > > > >Niels > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Gluster-devel mailing list > >Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx > >http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel > > > -- > > : 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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