Removing the developers guide

David Collier-Brown davec-b at rogers.com
Wed Aug 21 06:26:14 MDT 2013


A quick scan by a team member with a (symbolic) red pencil in hand might
do two things:
1 - identify things that one shouldn't depends upon
2 - identify sections for a GSOC or other volunteer to update!

I'd really prefer to NOT lose the guide. 

--dave

On 08/20/2013 01:20 PM, Thiago Fernandes Crepaldi wrote:
> Hi Jelmer,
>
> I knew the last revision was in 2009, but I was not aware that it was so
> outdated that it was not useful anymore =/
>
> I intend to start reading everything that I can about CIFS to start
> contributing to Samba in a regular basis.
> Are there any pointers that could accelerate the learning curve ? I started
> reading "Implementing CIFS - The Common Internet
> FileSystem<http://www.ubiqx.org/cifs/index.html>"
> and I also downloaded MS-SMB, MS-SMB2, MS-CIFS specs and "Samba Developers
> Guide" you just mentioned.
>
> Regards
> Thiago
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org> wrote:
>
>> The developers guide seems to be fairly outdated at this point; it hasn't
>> been
>> updated in the last 10 years or so and its contents have little usefulness
>> at
>> best. Would anybody object to its removal?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Jelmer
>>
>
>


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