Hello, Thomas Schwinge <[email protected]> writes: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 02:05:44PM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: >> I'm going to start implementing the VFS-style union mount functionality >> (http://preview.tinyurl.com/cpftg2). > > Congratulations for having gotten this GSoC project accepted! Sergiu > will be our only GSoC student for this summer. As he has, through his > previous work, already proven during the last year that he's capable of > working on Hurd stuff, I have no doubt that it will be a success both for > him and for us. :-)
Thank you very much for such flattering appreciation! :-) I'll strive hard to satisfy the expectations to the maximal degree :-) >> The current strategy is based on >> forking off the unionfs code base (retrieved from >> http://www.nongnu.org/hurdextras/#unionfs). I am going (rather >> naturally) to use git as the VCS for my project, which rises the >> following question: how do I do the forking itself? Do I have to convert >> the CVS repository of unionfs to git, or may I create an empty >> repository, do a big push of all unionfs code there, and start working >> in this repository? > > As far as I can tell, from a quick inspection, the copyright for all > changes to the unionfs code is assigned to the FSF, so we can safely > import that next to the main Hurd repositories. > > So, I'd rather go for the conversion method, to not hide the previous > history. And, as I'm already in this dirty business -- a bunch of the > main Hurd's repositories and their branches have already been published, > by the way -- I'm hereby offering to do the conversion for you. Stay > tuned. I was also thinking about conversion, but it looked a bit frightening, so I appreciate your proposal very much and I'll feel very much obliged if you would help me in this matter :-) Regards, scolobb
