Re: unionfs: stowing feature

[olafBuddenhagen]

Hi,

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 11:38:26PM +0200, Gianluca Guida wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 11:07 PM, Sergiu
> Ivanov<unlimitedscolobb@gmail.com> wrote:

> > I wonder whether there is still the necessity to keep things as they
> > are.  I can see that the files in which you are mentioned as the
> > author date back to 2005, so requirements might have changed in the
> > meantime.
> 
> Yes, I think the whole thing got paused/canceled/whoknows.

Well, the project is stalled since ams lost interest. (Partially because
he made no progress, as nobody ever figured out how to launch stowfs at
boot time; and partially because he was banned from the main Hurd
mailing list and IRC channel...)

His role in the project is rather special -- on one hand, it was him
(AFAIK) who revived the idea of actually providing a complete official
GNU system; but on the other hand, his behaviour quickly scared off any
potential contributors... And even now that he lost interest, it would
be hard for anyone else to pick it up again, as he is still the official
"GNU release manager", and still reads the gnu-system-discuss mailing
list; so anyone who picks it up will have to deal with him :-(

-antrik-