Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (168 mails)

[Petr Uzel <petr.uzel@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 04:54:46PM +0200, jdd wrote:
> Le 02/04/2012 14:52, Davidlohr Bueso a écrit :
> > Why me: I have a good technical background in systems programming
> > (thus C being natural to me), and have been contributing for a few
> > years to the util-linux project, which has the mainstream fdisk
> > program. Furthermore I am experienced with the fdisk source code
> > and block devices (partition tables and filesystems), having
> > written some of the interfaces used along the project - blkdev,
> > xalloc, procutils, etc. I am one of the people with most
> > contributions (https://www.ohloh.net/p/util-linux-ng/contributors)
> > and am known by the maintainer and other developers.
>
> very good news, specially the fact that you already know the
> util-linux team.
>
> one of the delicate points if that such sensible tool have to be
> maintained for a very large period of time.
>
> I follow the parted mailing list and see that pretty often there are
> some obscure bug discovered.
>
> Do you think you will be able to keep working on fdisk for some time
> after the Gsoc?

Obviously I can not speak for Davidlohr, but since he already did quite a
lot of work on util-linux, I don't expect he will just quit after
finishing the GSoC, right? :)

Petr

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