I'm glad to be joining the other Summer of Code participants and the  
rest of the developers here in the efforts to improve NetBSD. My own  
small contribution will hopefully be a full, robust, BSD-licensed  
implementation of the HFS+ filesystem. I know I'm not the only Mac  
user who wishes it was easier to access his Mac volumes on other  
operating systems, so I'll be happy to see this working.

This is my first time working on the internals of an OS, so I'm not  
quite sure what to expect. These are the broad goals I've set for  
myself:

Primary
  - full spec implementation
  - stability and reliability

Secondary
  - performance
  - portability
  - possible use of Spotlight metadata

Additional information and progress reports will be available at  
http://netbsd-soc.sourceforge.net/projects/hfs . I heartily welcome  
all questions and comments about the project, because I will surely  
have lots of them for you on this list.

I look forward to hacking away at the bowels of the kernel along with  
all of you. For now, I'll be poring over lots of specs, code, and  
thick UNIX books.

Take care,
Yevgeny Binder