The Wrapper Project

[Simo]

On Wed, 2013-11-20 at 10:42 -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 01:23:33PM -0500, Simo wrote:
> > On Wed, 2013-11-20 at 19:09 +0100, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > > 
> > > This is all code that originally comes from the Samba codebase.  That's also
> > > not how the original e-mail frames it. It suggests removing this code from
> > > the samba source tree and relying on the external copies.
> > 
> > Yes to reply to you and Adam at the same time.
> > Yes the code that originated Andreas projects came from Samba.
> > Andreas ran away with to try and see if it could be greatly improved.
> > 
> > For a lot of time it was just hacking around to see if it would work.
> > 
> > Some times that approach works better, and I am certain in this case
> > did, because it would have been unacceptable to the samba community to
> > break "make test" to do experiments.
> > 
> > Besides Andreas goal was also to make this code stand on its own, and
> > that's certainly easier if you develop it on its own.
> > 
> > I really do not see why this is a big deal to be honest. Why does it
> > make any difference how the code was built ?
> > 
> > What difference does it make if you get a review request of 200 patches
> > that basically reworks completely most of the code or a request to
> > review something of equal size with a git tree somewhere else ?
> > 
> > Sound like you are offended that some code was done on someone's own
> > without your knowledge, is that the problem ?
> 
> Now, now - please don't impugn the motivations of a fellow developer.
> That way lies uncivilized discourse, which we of course *never* suffer
> from here :-).
> 
> I'm very grateful to Andreas to making the code stand on its own
> as a separate project and spending the time to improve it.
> 
> It's true it was originally from the Samba codebase, and that
> usually gives the original developers some input into what should
> be done with it (unless it's a hostile fork, which I don't think
> is the case here).
> 
> I can see the merits of both approaches - but IMHO the thing
> that matters the most is the opinion of person doing the work, as nothing
> gets done without that :-).
> 
> So long as the code gets reviewed :-), I'm happy with whatever
> Andreas decides upon as he is the person taking this upon himself
> to improve.

+1

Simo.