[OpenAFS-devel] Re: mod_waklog sourceforge project

[Stephen Quinney]

We use mod_waklog in the University of Edinburgh School of Informatics
and I have previously put some effort into getting the code working on
EL6-based platforms (I posted the patches on this list a while back).
I'd like to help keep the project going and get my patches integrated
back in.


Stephen Quinney

On 31 August 2012 13:02, Aaron Knister <aaronk@umbc.edu> wrote:
> Well I can tell you that from a developer perspective UMBC really has given
> that baby up for adoption. Upper management views OpenAFS as a liability
> (don't get me started...) and seems to believe CIFS and or NFS are better
> cross-platform, WAN-accessible filesystems.
>
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 9:40 PM, Adam Megacz <megacz@cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi Ken,
>>
>> Unfortunately I am really swamped right now and won't be able to deal with
>> the patches for at least a few weeks.
>>
>> I am fine with you having access to the sourceforge project, but it's not
>> solely my call.... I made a bunch of improvements to mod_waklog, but it's
>> really the UMich and UMBC peoples's baby.  I'm CC'ing them and the openafs
>> list in case their email addresses have changed; if they are okay with it
>> I'm happy to hand over the project to you.
>>
>>   - a
>>
>>
>> On Aug 16, 2012, at 2:06 AM, Ken Dreyer wrote:
>> > Hey Adam,
>> >
>> > There's a couple patches floating around for mod_waklog. I'm not sure
>> > what your current availability is - do you have time to merge these
>> > into the upstream repository on SourceForge?
>> >
>> > If you're very busy, could you give me commit access? My SourceForge
>> > username is ktdreyer.
>> >
>> > - Ken
>> >
>> >
>> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> > From: Ken Dreyer <ktdreyer@ktdreyer.com>
>> > Date: Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:03 AM
>> > Subject: patches for mod_waklog
>> > To: Aaron Knister <aaronk@umbc.edu>
>> >
>> >
>> > Hi Aaron,
>> >
>> > I'm packaging up mod_waklog for Fedora, and I saw your patches on your
>> > website [1]. Thanks for publishing these! I had two questions:
>> >
>> > 1) In the _GNU_SOURCE patch, would it be simpler to reduce that "ifdef
>> > _GNU_SOURCE + else" to an "ifndef" ?
>> >
>> > 2) Did you try to get these patches upstream? I would like to get them
>> > into the official git repo on SourceForge if possible.
>> >
>> > - Ken
>> >
>> > http://userpages.umbc.edu/~aaronk/waklog/
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Aaron Knister
> Systems Administrator
> Division of Information Technology
> University of Maryland, Baltimore County
> aaronk@umbc.edu