Hi,
I thought I should put something out on the list about this, I was waiting
for management approval to tell people, but maybe that was a little foolish.
So, yes, SGI had layoffs yesterday, and yes the XFS on linux project took
a hit because of this. However, we do intend to keep working on XFS linux,
and I do intend to work really hard to get it into the distributions and
Alan and Linus's kernels. It will take us a little while to regroup our
efforts and to work out our priorities on the project, hence my message
yesterday. We appear to be building momentum in the community right now,
and the last thing we need is less people to do the work, but financial
realities tend to take precedence in these situations.
I would like to thank Russell for all his contributions to the project, he
was one of the original two people working on the port (Jim Mostek was the
other) and did a lot of the early work of dragging the xfs code base out
of Irix. Russell also put in a lot of late night sessions working on the
code and dealing with questions from the list, and was instrumental in
the packaging of the 1.0 release. His full time contributions will be missed,
but hopefully he will have the time to make some contributions on his
own time.
I should also add that as part of the same budget cutting process SGI and
LinuxCare came to a mutual agreement to stop the contract for LinuxCare
helping out with the port. Martin Peterson also made many contributions,
and was and continues to be a valuble contact with the Linux community.
Martin (who I believe is travelling right now) has been doing Linux XFS
work on his own time for a few weeks now.
Steve (now officially swamped) Lord
> As part of SGI's recent layoffs my contract with SGI has not
> been renewed.
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> Unfortunately this means I will not be working on XFS full time.
> I do plan on staying active with project as much as time permits,
> but given that I have not achieved "independently wealthy" :-) status
> I will have to find another contract.
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> I sure XFS will continue to grow and with all the recent community
> interest and support will become a valued part of the
> Linux operating system.
>
> -Russell Cattelan
> DE inc.
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