Re: Re: is eCos dying?

[David Fernandez <david dot fernandez dot work at googlemail dot com>]

(resent, as was sent from company email with likely privacy disclaimer 
attached)

On 13/10/15 00:57, Jonathan Larmour wrote:
> On 06/10/15 08:51, Richard Rauch wrote:
> > You do not see a lot of activities in the eCos community because of politics
> > and commercial interests.
> [snip]
> > This is just a guess, but in my opinion the reason for this is, that the
> > maintainers of public eCos are as well strongly commercial oriented.
> > It seems, they will not put any port to official open source repository if
> > it could disturb commercial interests (eCosCentric/eCosPro...).
> If nothing else, look at the list at the bottom of
> http://ecos.sourceware.org/intouch.html and you'll see that only two of the
> maintainers (myself and Nick) are in eCosCentric - severely outnumbered! If a
> maintainer has the time and ability to go through, review and potentially
> rework any submission, then any of them can. If you think there has been some
> secret agreement behind-the-scenes between all maintainers to deliberately
> stop contributions being committed you are very mistaken.

I would say that nobody looks at the list these days, specially ecos-devel.

I had some things I managed to put in a state I could submit as valid 
patches, but nobody answers the emails, so you end up forgetting about 
it and keeping private patches.

Is there any way people can contribute currently, I mean actively 
contribute, rather than just throw stuff into a black hole?

Otherwise, it might be better to just be clear and say that opensource 
eCos is meant as an evaluation repository, and eCosCentric should be the 
way to go for any real contributions and in business use of eCos.

Regards
David Fernandez


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