On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 10:13:01PM +0530, Venky Shankar wrote: > > > 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. > >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. > > or a tshirt with contributors list on the back :) That was a plan once, but I do not think this actually happened. Maybe we should try to get that done for 3.8, or 4.0. Niels > > > > >But yes, if we do want to expose this information via the mount point, > >then maybe /mount/.meta is a good place. > > Ummm.. makes sense. > > > > >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) > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Gluster-devel mailing list > >Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx > >http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel
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