On Monday 16 October 2006 10:46, Nick Rout wrote: > On 10/15/2006, "Steve Holdoway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Another nail... > > > >http://news.com.com/Novell+makes+file-storage+software+shift/2100-1016_3-6 > >125509.html > > >Steve > > It just goes to show that it doesn't matter how open source Reiser's > code is, if he is the only one that really understands it, and is the > "driver" for the whole project, it quickly unravels in his absence. While Hans designed both of the Reiser file systems, it's important to remember that Hans also has a team around him who did much of the actual coding and implementation.
I'd agree that the whole of the Reiser filesystems project is at a crossroads. Obviously we are living in "interesting times" right now as far as the Reiser filesystems are concerned. imho they are both probably going to crumble and fall into the annals of time. otoh it's quite possible that now that Hans is otherwise occupied, at least for the time being, that the team will be able to draw in some money to buy some time to give the project the proper final polish it needs. One thing going in its favour is that there is quite a good volume of documentions about it. Having spoken briefly with Linus about the matter, and read the LKML archives fairly extensively, I have my own opinions as to why Linus has not so far welcomed Reiser4 into his own version of the Linux kernel, but this is not the time or medium to explain them. > Theres a lot of projects out there that have been dropped or half > finished by students who saw open source as a good way to complete their > final year projects. Once the course is over they lose interest. It's > damned hard forking a project or picking it up from the original author > unless you were intimately involved in the first place. > Which is why we are lucky that Linus has a good stock of right hand men! His stock of 'right hand men' is actually only two three people. What he's done is to establish an open and effective tree of trust. ( look at the "Signed off by: " lines in the kernel source code. )
