Greg KH wrote:
On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 09:04:32PM +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
Greg KH wrote:
On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 07:41:00PM +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
I don't want to flog a dead horse, and I'm also perfectly happy with the compromise we found, but the deprecation of JFS and now more recently LILO were clearly Novell decisions, not community decisions.
I think perhaps the case of JFS was a good start - it's still part of YaST, yet clearly marked as unsupported.
JFS is unsupported upstream, that is what drove that decision. IBM is no longer doing any new development of it and only very little bug work for it, if any.
To my knowledge, Dave Kleikamp still does active JFS support. The latest release of jfsutils is not even a month old.
Have you asked him what his full-time involvement for JFS really is? Hint, it's really in maintenance mode only...
Oh, certainly - but that sounds like it IS supported upstream ... Anyway, that discussion is really long over.
If you really want to use JFS, you can, but it's not something that we can support due to no one willing/able to do it.
Which is fair enough.
If you wish to step up and do such a thing, we will be glad to reconsider such markings.
Well, for starters the option needs to be open and people need to know it's there. For myself, I probably don't have the necessary knowledge right now to start actively supporting something or other in YaST, but that's something that can be sorted out. /Per Jessen, Zürich --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org