[OpenAFS-devel] openafs cell and contrib area?

[Neulinger, Nathan R.]

Because of a situation like ken's krb5 patch. Useful to plenty of people,
but the maintainers weren't interested in including more than a tiny
fraction of it, and because it wasn't available in a central location where
people could look for contributions/etc, there has been a LOT of duplication
of effort.

Granted, I'm being a bit pessimistic there, but I figure it's better to plan
ahead.

I'm also thinking things like MR-AFS, where it may not be suitable for
public consumption on the mainline, but could be very useful if you have the
infrastructure. Or for that matter "here's something I was playing with, it
doesn't work yet, but it could be useful if someone put a few hours of work
into getting it cleaned up"

If nothing else - set up a page where people can EASILY get links added to
point at contributed code/patches/etc. That way, there is one place to look
for stuff, even if it isn't added to the mainline code.

-- Nathan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Derek Atkins [mailto:warlord@MIT.EDU]
> Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 9:35 AM
> To: Neulinger, Nathan R.
> Cc: 'openafs-devel@penn.central.org'
> Subject: Re: [OpenAFS-devel] openafs cell and contrib area?
> 
> 
> It's still a bit unclear what the process will be, but it _IS_
> supposed to be relatively open.  Also, the CVS repository is
> accessible via anoymous CVS and via cvsweb, so putting it into AFS
> would be overkill, IMHO.
> 
> I have nothing against a central work-in-progress area, but if nobody
> else is interested, why do you need to distribute it?  And if other
> people ARE interested, it should probably get patched into the
> mainline (or at least a branch) in CVS.
> 
> Just my $.02  :)
> 
> -derek
> 
> "Neulinger, Nathan R." <nneul@umr.edu> writes:
> 
> > Ah. Wasn't quite sure how open that process will be. Even 
> still, I'd imagine
> > that there will still be preliminary patches, or patches 
> not of interest to
> > everyone. For those, it would be nice to have a central 
> area. (Hey, if
> > nothing else, it would probably be smart to have the 
> source/copy of cvs in
> > afs for people to get at it that way.)
> > 
> > i.e. stuff like the people/ dir for the linux kernel.
> > 
> > -- Nathan
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Derek Atkins [mailto:warlord@MIT.EDU]
> > > Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 9:09 AM
> > > To: Neulinger, Nathan R.
> > > Cc: 'openafs-devel@penn.central.org'
> > > Subject: Re: [OpenAFS-devel] openafs cell and contrib area?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I'm not sure why we really need a contrib area, as patches will
> > > (hopefully) get applied to the OpenAFS CVS tree as they 
> are submitted.
> > > 
> > > Also, I believe there are at least some plans to resurrect the
> > > grand.central.org AFS Cell, though there are still some technical
> > > issues in terms of distributing the cell.
> > > 
> > > -derek
> > > 
> > > "Neulinger, Nathan R." <nneul@umr.edu> writes:
> > > 
> > > > Are there any plans for an openafs.org afs cell and contrib 
> > > area similar to
> > > > that on transarc?
> > > > 
> > > > -- Nathan
> > > > 
> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > Nathan Neulinger                       EMail:  nneul@umr.edu
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> -- 
>        Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
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