Re: Board of Directors Elections 2019 - Candidacy - Jeremy Allison

Debarshi Ray <[email protected]> Tue, 4 Jun 2019 11:25:03 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, Jun 01, 2019 at 07:08:12PM -0700, Jeremy Allison via foundation-list wrote:
> Yes, thanks for the correction Karen. Not being a lawyer means I'm often
> not very precise about these things (I'm very precise about my technical
> terminology instead :-).
>
> [...]
>
> > > I don't currently contribute other than helping the
> > > gnome-vfs maintainers use one of the libraries (libsmbclient) of
> > > my primary project, Samba to access SMB1/2/3 servers.

Then allow me to nitpick and point out that it's GVfs, not
gnome-vfs. :)

It's been a while since GnomeVFS [1] has been deprecated and replaced
by GVfs [2,3] and the application-facing API is fronted by GIO [4].

Either way, I appreciate your help maintaining the Samba backend, and
your interest in running for the board!

[1] https://developer.gnome.org/gnome-vfs/
[2] https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/gvfs
[3] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gvfs/
[4] https://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/