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Re:Ask HN: How to get contributions to open source project by billziss on Thursday September 22, 2016 @07:09PM (#12561093)
There is indeed a high bar of entry, although this is not necessarily true for the user mode components.

BTW, please consider contributing to WinFsp :) You do not have to contribute to the core project if you find the license unpalatable or any other reason. But there are other ways that one could help. Creating a C# or Java wrapper would be very useful, for example.

The cygfuse project also needs help and this one intends to work with both WinFsp and Dokany:

https://github.com/mgeisert/cygfuse

> Many of your potential contributors may also lack the required operating system to do the work...

That is an interesting thought. I wonder if I could spend some time to try making this compile on Win7.

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Re:Ask HN: How to get contributions to open source project by voltagex_ on Thursday September 22, 2016 @07:20PM (#12561152)
It's not going to be a popular opinion on HN, but I think supporting Windows 10 only is fine in 2016.

I'm wondering how tricky it'd be to create a C# FS implementation that supported both Dokany and WinFsp from the same codebase.

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Re:Ask HN: How to get contributions to open source project by billziss on Thursday September 22, 2016 @07:42PM (#12561270)
> I'm wondering how tricky it'd be to create a C# FS implementation that supported both Dokany and WinFsp from the same codebase.

That's actually a cool idea.

The API's are not dissimilar as both API's were designed for Windows. If you decide to look into this you can count on my help and support.

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