Re: [ECOS] Who's maintaining CVS

[Gary Thomas <gthomas at ecoscentric dot com>]

On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 09:44, Scott Dattalo wrote:
> On 23 Sep 2002, Gary Thomas wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 08:26, Scott Dattalo wrote:
> > > 
> > > Is it just Mark S. at Redhat? 
> > > 
> > > The reason I ask is because there are several patches getting submitted to
> > > the ecos-patches mailing list but not all are getting into CVS. (At least
> > > the tiny one I sent 2 weeks ago didn't). With this kind of volume, I
> > > personally know that it's difficult to manage (you can commit the change
> > > easy enough, but testing each and every patch can be *very* time
> > > consuming).
> > 
> > There are a number of us trying to manage the public eCos sources.
> > AFAIK, Mark is the only one [left] at Red Hat doing so.
> 
> And the only one with write access to CVS too, right?
> 

No, there are a number of folks with write access to the anonymous CVS
tree.

> > As for your patches, we try to look at them and commit as we
> > can.  Sometimes though, there are issues such as copyright
> > assignment, etc, which must be dealt with before anything can
> > be merged into the repository.
> > 
> > What patch [exactly] got missed?
> 
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/ecos-patches/2002-09/msg00023.html
> 
> This is really a minor patch adding register #defines unique to the at91 
> processors. Please note that I'm not complaining that the patch is not in 
> CVS. Instead, I'm just concerned/curious that with only one person with 
> write access to CVS that patches are going to slip through the cracks.
> 

I'll look into this.

> > Testing?  I don't think that there is a whole lot of testing
> > which can take place at this time - certainly not to the level
> > that existed 6 months ago.
> 
> I suspected as much. However, with the variety of platforms supported by 
> eCos, I don't see how it's possible to test everything everytime a new 
> patch is submitted.

... it used to be possible, but times have changed :-(

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