Re: [kdb] Is KDB dead?

[jidong xiao <jidong.xiao@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Joe Korty <joe.korty@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
> Is KDB still a living project?  I wonder only
> because 12 days ago I sent to this list seven bugfix /
> enhancement patches, and while I admit none of them are
> earthshattering, they are all useful and as yet there has
> been no comment or acknowledgement on this list, nor have
> they shown up in KDB.
>

I will help to review your patches. kdb is still very useful for many
developers. Although kdb is an open source project, it was initialized
by SGI, and the maintainers were all from SGI, but SGI can not gain
any benefit from this project, and I guess at present SGI is under
some financial crisis, Keith Owen left SGI, and then his sucessor Jay
Lan left SGI, so it is quite understandable why kdb progressed very
slow in recent years. I just wonder is SGI intending to give up kdb?
If nobody from SGI likes to maintain SGI, I can take this over.

In addition, I guess another important reason why kdb looks like going
to die is that it failed to be accepted by Linus. Only if a
kernel-based project is merged into the mainline kernel, it could draw
more attention and more people would like to join the development of
the project. This is crucial, but it's the truth.

Regards
Jason