Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (626 mails)

[Eberhard Moenkeberg <emoenke@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Sun, 2 Mar 2008, Rajko M. wrote:
> On Sunday 02 March 2008 03:24:57 pm Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
> > On Sun, 2 Mar 2008, Rajko M. wrote:
> > > On Sunday 02 March 2008 02:33:09 pm Gerald Pfeifer wrote:

> > > > Obviously this is the easier to do the more knowledge we
> > > > have among openSUSE contributors (which, on the kernel side, mainly
> > > > boils down to Novell engineers, sadly).
> > > :-D
> > >
> > > Well, what we can do.
> > > You hired everyone that knows kernel, and if someone shows up you are
> > > going to hire him/her as well.
> >
> > If I understand it right (which may be wrong), you say Novell/SUSE has to
> > hire JFS knowledge just because you (and maybe few others) expect it.
>
> My comment was on the quoted text, not on the whole thread topic. 
> I'm happy with ext3 and reiserfs. 
>
> I said that they already hired every kernel developer that was available and 
> there is no more left in the community, and if someone shows up with ability 
> to develop kernel, that person will be hired as well. 
>
> > I guess you need to own or represent more than 10% of the Novell shares
> > for things like that...
>
> I guess that 1% is safe bet to have a word about couple of hires.
>
> According to information in this thread, and some other literature around, I 
> don't see reason to keep JFS. 

This is very much OK with me. It is far more important to have a solid 
support for some filesystems than a usage offer of a lot.


Viele Grüße
Eberhard Mönkeberg (emoenke@xxxxxxx, em@xxxxxxx)