Re: adding jfs to hurdextras

[Manuel Menal]

Sajith T S wrote:
> Manuel Menal wrote:
>
> > You've received this mail because you are the author of the jfs 
> > translator for GNU/Hurd. As you might know, there is a repository 
> > where we put software that was developed for GNU/Hurd but is not 
> > included in the Hurd source code : 
> > <http://sv.gnu.org/projects/hurdextras/>. I think PITH should be 
> > added to that repository so that other hackers can see and modify 
> > the code. Are you OK with this ?

> Manuel, we love you! :)  And I know you meant jfs and not pith in 
> this email ;)

Yes, sorry, I should've re-read once more. ;-)

> Feel free to use the code in any way that would benefit the 
> community. While we are at it, you should also be aware that this 
> translator was done as an academic project, at a time both John and I
>  were very wet behind the ears - it just did not turn into the shape 
> it should have basically because our lack of skills.  And we did not 
> have any kind of "bandwidth" after leaving college to continue work 
> on this.  Hopefully things should change for the better now.

Nevertheless, it really works well in read-only. I think it might be
made a bit faster, but that's it.

> > The hurdextras policy is that patches should only be committed with
> >  the author's agreement, if they are still interested in reviewing 
> > patches. Are you still interested in reviewing patches for jfs ? We
> >  could add you as a project member and notify you when patches 
> > against jfs are submitted.

> Neither of us have a Hurd running at the moment, so we can't test. 
> And we had not been able to follow the developments in the past 
> couple of years so I am probably not even qualified to review your 
> patch -  I must add that it looks quite okay, however.  Feel free to 
> add jfs translator to the repository.  With appropriate patches, of 
> course :)  You can choose to maintain this if you wish to.  John is 
> also okay with this, we just talked.

OK. If someone submit patches, I'll take care of them for now.

> Thanks a lot for your interest in this.  Let us allow a little time 
> to think if we would be able to join you in the project as we have to
>  set up machines, find time, learn things, etc.  I would love to.

No problem! Let us know as soon as you want to join again. If you need
access to Hurd boxes, please see
http://hurd.gnufans.org/bin/view/Hurd/PublicHurdBoxen or ask me for an
account.

> Emails have changed since, please note.

Yeah, don't worry, my MUA remembers emails. ;-)

I'll check in jfs with this patch applied tonight. Thanks a lot!

--
Manuel Menal