Re: Question about Reiser4

[William Heimbigner]

On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Rik van Riel wrote:
> William Heimbigner wrote:
>
> >  If there was 1) a maintainer and 2) code that didn't break "coding
> >  standards", would it be included in the kernel?
>
> While I cannot speak for Linus and Andrew, code that fulfills
> these criteria (and is useful to have - reiser4 seems to have
> enough user interest) usually gets accepted.
>
> http://kernelnewbies.org/UpstreamMerge has some hints.

So in conclusion / to answer Eric's question,
1) reiser4 needs a maintainer
2) reiser4 needs the code quality cleaned up
3) Until those two things happen, it's extremely unlikely that it will be 
included in the kernel.

Correct?
William Heimbigner
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