Re: Maintainers? [Re: Booting from CD]

[Thierry Laronde]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 09:52:55AM +0900, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote:
> 
> > So, it's almost inaccurate to call me a maintainer.  Okuji has pulled
> > that load almost entirely by himself for a long time now.  Last I
> > talked with him, he found it tiring, and is enjoying working on other
> > projects in Ruby (http://www.ruby-lang.org/).
> 
> I'm now working on an intelligent MySQL shell written by Ruby, so I
> have no spare time to devote myself to GRUB. I still have an interest
> in GRUB (perhaps because I know it could be much better), but I don't
> think I can do much work for GRUB (in a foreseeable future), in
> particular, user support. I must say, all I can do for now is to say,
> "Yes, your patch is right. Please apply it to the CVS" or "No, you
> are wrong. Don't apply your patch to the CVS". I can't do anything
> more than advise.
> 
> > I have to say that Grub has a track record of burning people out (that
> > is why I stepped forward in the first place to annex it from Erich
> > Boleyn).  So, if you want to work with Grub, either know how to pace
> > yourself, or else be prepared to be overwhelmed.
> 
> That's right. *sigh*

I, for one, want to help with the GRUB. But, even if a bootloader is a
master piece of a whole system (in order to use some you must boot it...),
I do not plan to try to spend my whole "free" time to only the GRUB ;)

So, at the moment, I try to look at the v86... mainly because I have almost
no clue about this stuff, but I do consider that the best way to learn is to
do it the hard way.

FWIW, I consider that you have pushed GRUB to a great state, and may I
suggest that you officially release the cvs version ? There are no "huge"
bugs, all the stuff is quite usable, and I think this version is a
milestone. But YMMV...

Regards,
-- 
Thierry LARONDE, Centre de Ressources Informatiques, Archamps - France
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