[AFS3-std] Members or Potential Members of the afs3-standardization group

[Jason Edgecombe]

On 10/23/2010 05:54 PM, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:
> --On Friday, October 22, 2010 07:46:26 PM -0400 Jason Edgecombe 
> <jason@rampaginggeek.com> wrote:
>
>> On 10/22/2010 10:10 AM, Douglas E. Engert wrote:
>>> As the almost elected co-chairs of the afs3-standardization group,
>>> Hartmut Reuter
>>> and myself have been communicating while waiting for the vote counting
>>> to be completed.
>>>
>>> As this process is meant to be open to all, we agreed that the first
>>> step it to make
>>> sure all interested parties are at least aware of this group and have
>>> been invited
>>> to participate. As such we would like to ask the current members on
>>> this mailing list
>>> to help identify any other developers, vendors, or other interested
>>> parties that may
>>> not be on the mailing list.
>>>
>>> This would include representation for implementations OpenAFS, Arla
>>> and IBM. Are
>>> there others?
>>>
>>> What about other vendors, that may be become interested in the future
>>> for example
>>> Microsoft, Apple, RedHat, BSD, HP, Sun/Oracle?
>>>
>>> Any related products like DCE/DFS or NAS?
>>>
>>> http://michigan-openafs-lists.central.org/mailman/listinfo/afs3-standard 
>>>
>>> ization
>>>
>>> shows we have 81+5 members. OpenAFS and Arla are well represented. We
>>> have 2 from
>>> IBM.
>>>
>>> We would like to ask member of this list to look over the list and
>>> identify
>>> who is on the list, and who is not on the list (individuals or
>>> organizations) but
>>> should be. At that point the co-chairs (on members) could advertise
>>> and invite
>>> others to join the group.
>>>
>> Should kAFS be included? Since this was a summer project, I'm not sure
>> who is maintaining this going forward.
>
> kafs was not a "summer project"; it's been part of the Linux kernel 
> for some time, and is maintained primarily by David Howells, who I'm 
> sure is aware of this list, since he is a registrar.  As I understand 
> it, Wang Lei's GSoC projects were related to developing a common 
> user/kernel pioctl interface for kafs and OpenAFS and to adding kernel 
> AFSDB support to kafs.
My bad.

I just wanted to make sure that kAFS was represented.

Jason