Re: [Announce] XFS 1.1 Prerelease 2 available for testing

[Chris Tooley <ctooley@amoa.org>]

On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 15:17, Florin Andrei wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 07:13, Florin Andrei wrote:
> > 
> > It takes someone who knows how to deal with Freshmeat, and lkml, and
> > Slashdot and [insert your favourite here], and do the right things, and
> > send the right information when the time comes, etc.
> > Like i said, this is an art (besides being a full-time job), and some
> > people are very good at it.
> 
> Just because you're open source it doesn't mean it's the end of
> advertising. Just that the ways are different.
> 
> (sorry for reply-to-myself)

It's also a matter of picking your path into the kernel.  Linus says he
only trusts a small number of people, 10-15 or something like that.  If
you want something in the Linus kernel, you typically have to go through
one of those people unless Linus trusts you.  Or so the theory goes. 
That is one of the good things about going through a distribution kernel
first.  There is usually someone there that give it a once over and get
it pushed up to Linus for another look over.  Since SGI already creates
RedHat Installers and RPMs for RedHat, it seems like a convenient target
distro.

And, Christoph, I thought ACL/EA went into the kernel at 2.5.3 which was
before JFS at 2.5.6 ...

http://www.geocrawler.com/mail/msg.php3?msg_id=7686796&list=35
http://kernelnewbies.org/status/latest.html

Chris Tooley

I am not a kernel developer and am just interested in seeing this
project go through as I've an XFS user and really like the filesystem.