[OpenAFS-devel] Re: IPv6 support

[Erik Dalén]

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 17:33, Simon Wilkinson <sxw@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> On 14 Feb 2011, at 14:04, omalleys@msu.edu wrote:
>
>> Quoting Andrew Deason <adeason@sinenomine.net>:
>>
>> Maybe some documentation in the code where the changes need to occur wou=
ld
>> be useful? If it is, then it would also be useful to have a standardized
>> status attached to the
>> comment so you can search for it, ie // ipv6 support needed, //ipv6
>> support done.
>
> I think the problem is that such an audit of the entire code base is like=
ly
> to be a considerable amount of work, and require a reasonable depth of
> understanding of the code. For example, it's far from clear to the untrai=
ned
> eye which structures are serialised to disk, or are part of a Ubik databa=
se,
> and which are purely held in memory for the life of a process.
>

Another problem is that documentation projects aren't permitted for GSoC:
http://www.google-melange.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2011/fa=
qs#documentation

-- 
Erik Dalén