On Fri, 2011-11-04 at 18:41 +0000, Bayard G. Bell wrote: > On Thu, 2011-11-03 at 09:58 +0100, Damian Wojsław wrote: > > Hi > > > > I would like to work on inclusion of fuse and ntfs-3g into main > > openindiana package repo and also maintain packages if they get > > included. Is OI interested? > > Two points: this project is now hosted at opensolaris.org, so please > consider forking it somewhere like bitbucket (it requires both Studio > Express and gcc, so I'm not sure if we'll need a fork for that > reason--however way you cut it, nothing on opensolaris.org is getting > care and feeding in the open, so I don't see why you wouldn't re-host it > at this point). I also take Gordon's point about the stability of > something like a semi-orphaned kernel module for which we don't have > upstream issue tracking (forking gets this out in the open). Whether we > flag this by repo or other metadata (and there are other cases where we > ought to consider this, such as transitioning off of legacy libraries), > we should have some way of marking caveat emptor.
Hm, looking at the GSoC project ideas page, I noticed that gwr has previously forked fuse for illumos (see bottom of https://www.illumos.org/projects/illumos-gate/wiki/Project_Ideas). Could we please start from this base? I think fuse support is something that should be coordinated with the illumos upstream, including giving SFE-maintained patches a long-term home. _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
