Re: Reiser4 Linux 4.17.19-1 hangs in Google cloud VM, too.

[Al Viro]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 09:04:18PM -0700, Vito Caputo wrote:
> > reiser4 has never been in-tree to start with.  And name is completely irrelevant -
> > all I'm refering to is that I have not seen any postings on l-k/fsdevel/etc.
> > from anybody working on that particular out-of-tree codebase.
> > 
> > Put it that way - I would expect the bitrot from (apparent) decade-long
> > inactivity to be a much more serious problem than anything naming-related.
> 
> Would you say bitrot is more or less likely if a project doesn't attract
> fresh meat?

I would say that by now it seems to be a purely academical question - after a while
the bitrot itself is more than enough.  If it's maintained by somebody, take that
question to those somebodies, whoever they are.  I hadn't seen any indications that
it is, and that's literally all I'm trying to comment upon - *IF* it's been
unmaintained, it's almost certainly far past the point of no return due to bitrot.