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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/16/2015 07:36 PM, Niels de Vos
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<pre wrap="">Hi,
Many GUI tools provide an "About" box that displays some information
about the project. Some applications (Wireshark for example) go an extra
step by including a list of all people that contributed patches. That is
quite a nice way for contributors to see the appreciation of their work.
I think it would be really awesome if we could do something similar. We
have our reserved+hidden ".glusterfs" directory where all access is
denied. We could populate this directory with static compiled-in
contents. When accessed from a client, the licenses, versions, authors
and other bits could be displayed. A normal readdir should still not
list the directory at all (no change from current behaviour).
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I think It would be better to revive the who-wrote-glusterfs reports
that Vijay used to send on the mailing list instead of statically
adding contributor names to code.<br>
We could have a `gluster --credits` or `gluster--help` cli that
points to gluster.org and maybe add a button thingy on the website
which when clicked runs the who-wrote-glusterfs.sh on
<whatever-branch> and displays the result. Things like
version numbers and licenses are/should be covered in
gluster--version. <br>
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But yes, if we do want to expose this information via the mount
point, then maybe /mount/.meta is a good place.<br>
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My 2 cents.<br>
Ravi<br>
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> : me an AlphaPC that I intend to try getting linux running
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> : definitely help flush out some of the most flagrant
unportable stuff.
> : The Alpha is much more different from the i386 than the 68k
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> : it's likely to get most of the stuff fixed.
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