OpenAFS community members, It is with sadness that I must share with you the passing of Kevin McBride. Kevin was an employee of End Point Corporation and while in the overall life of OpenAFS only a brief contributor to the project, he was recently involved in several projects intended to improve the performance and maintainability of OpenAFS.
Highlights of Kevin's AFS contributions: - An SNMP MIB has been developed for use as part of the AFS instrumentation framework presented at the 2007 AFS Best Practices Workshop. Kevin reviewed and restructured the SNMP MIB for AFS Instrumentation. The original design was good, but Kevin had the knowledge and experience to know what was missing, and provided crucial guidance and feedback as the work progressed. - OpenAFS 1.5 recently received a contribution of a pthreaded ubik interface for servers and clients. Kevin did substantially all of the coding involved in this project. - In addtion, he had done bug investigation, and in conjunction with that, provided the --enable-debug option to OpenAFS' configure, to make it easier for anyone to gather debugging information. I'm told a memorial will be placed on the End Point website (http://www.endpoint.com) when more details are available. Kevin will be missed. Derrick Brashear _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
