I absolutely agree about compromisng Hans' ability to make bank, and should have been more clear. I'm NOT AT ALL proposing any sort of rename or transfer of 'ownership' of the project. It's Hans' baby, and regardless of what happens, it will remain his baby in my eyes. I'm proposing that, in his absence, the community comes together and commits to continue developing and releasing it (and working towards mainline kernel inclusion). I oppose arbitrary renames and am absolutely in favor of giving back the proverbial reins (which, again, to be clear: I have no interest in holding or ability to hold) when/if he returns, regardless of the trial outcome. I want to use and sponsor ReiserFS, not some politically correct renamed fork. ReiserFS is what it is because of Hans, and I don't want it to be something else. Note that I didn't register the domains. I actually did check them, but I decided against it. I don't want to do anything that doesn't have the full, unanimous support of the folks actually doing the development. Anything I do pertaining to ReiserFS will be posted on list, and if there's a halfway reasonable problem with any of it, I'll stop immediately. I want to further Hans' vision. His personal life has zero effect on the merit of his filesystem design. I'd happily consider sponsoring further development of the repacker - if you'd like to hack on it, let me know, and we can work something out. I'm not able to fund a full-time development effort, but I can definitely help. I'll work on getting the source code comments into HTML. On 3/4/08, Christopher Sawtell <csawtell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Christopher Sawtell was kind enough to send me a copy of the documentation. > > > Please note that the image files for the diagrams which are be part of > the whitepaper are missing, and that there is a lot of more up to date > detailed doco in the source code files. > > If there if more work that would be well worth funding, it would be > the proposed real-time re-packer, and the re-integration of the > ability to access extended attributes as sub-files of the main > data-file. Yes, I do know that 'The Powers-That-Be' don't approve, but > it's a brilliant idea. > > P.S. I think we should not yet do anything which would compromise > Hans' ability to earn a crust if the current situation turns out to be > just a ghastly nightmare. > > > -- > Sincerely etc. > > Christopher Sawtell > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe reiserfs-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
