Re: Proposal for end-of-life for fedfs-utils development

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So if it's not too depressing I'd be curious what went wrong--did this
turn out to be harder than we thought to get stable, or are people happy
enough with automounting, or did we just not do a good job of explaining
it to people that might use it, or some combination of all those?

--b.

On Fri, Jun 02, 2017 at 11:01:05AM -0400, Chuck Lever wrote:
> Upstream fedfs-utils has not been under active development for
> two years or more, and there is a scant user base. I'd like to
> propose making 0.10 the final major release of fedfs-utils.
> 
> The plan:
> 
> - Since 0.10 is in at least one major enterprise distribution,
> I will remain available to integrate security fixes and make
> new minor releases in the 0.10 line, as needed, for one to
> two more years.
> 
> - Retire and remove fedfs-utils from upstream mirror distros
> such as Fedora rawhide.
> 
> - Transfer utilities such as nfsref into nfs-utils, with
> support for FedFS junctions removed.
> 
> - Announcements of the change in status will be made on
> fedfs-utils-announce and on the wiki.linux-nfs.org site.
> 
> 
> 
> Comments welcome!
> 
> 
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> Chuck Lever
> 
> 
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