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Date:      Wed, 20 Feb 2019 10:09:57 +0200
From:      Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com>
To:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Shawn Webb <shawn.webb@hardenedbsd.org>, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r344316 - head/sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs
Message-ID:  <98312B69-2AC4-461A-8085-D6BAC68D453D@me.com>
In-Reply-To: <20190220075613.GC84455@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201902192335.x1JNZu53080578@repo.freebsd.org> <20190219234328.wrmteippr6vbg2fr@mutt-hbsd> <20190220075613.GC84455@FreeBSD.org>

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> On 20 Feb 2019, at 09:56, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> wrote:
>=20
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 06:43:28PM -0500, Shawn Webb wrote:
>> At the risk of painting a bikeshed a lovely color of neon purple, I'm
>> curious about if/how these types of commits get merged upstream to
>> (OpenZFS|Illumos|ZFS On Linux|where ever ZFS upstream is now|I'm very
>> confused|is anyone else confused where upstream is?).
>>=20
>> Who is upstream? Is work like this going to remain as a downstream
>> patch to ZFS? Or is FreeBSD going to work to upstream this type of
>> work?
>=20
> I've always felt that we should've become upstream to everyone else
> the moment we knew Oracle would eat Sun (20 April 2009), and never
> understood why it didn't happen and now, ten years later, we're =
talking
> about ZFS on fucking Linux becoming our upstream.  Something'd got =
very
> wrong here and I'd like to know what and why.
>=20
>> I hope my curiousity doesn't offend anyone. ;)
>=20
> Not at all, I'm also confused and curious.
>=20
> ./danfe
>=20

The genuine lack of developers and development. If the updates do happen =
in ZoL (for zfs), it only means the developers find it easier to work =
there.

rgds,
toomas=



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