Removing the developers guide

Jelmer Vernooij jelmer at samba.org
Wed Aug 21 07:30:59 MDT 2013


Hi Dave,

On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 08:26:14AM -0400, David Collier-Brown wrote:
> 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. 
Which parts of the developers guide have you found useful?

Jelmer

> 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 outdated that it was not useful anymore =/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 The developers guide seems to be fairly outdated at this point; it hasn't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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