RE: [ECOS] Who's maintaining CVS

["Koeller, T." <Thomas dot Koeller at baslerweb dot com>]

Gary,

as you certainly remember I wrote to you in private and asked
whether copyright assignments should still be made to Red Hat.
Your answer was that you were in the middle of negotiations
with Red Hat regarding this, and I should wait a couple of
days. Besides, nobody ever requested a copyright assignment
for the modular AT91 HAL from me. The only response I ever got
was from people like Tim who were working in related areas.

There is a couple of contributions I have submitted that have
not made int into CVS:

- The modular AT91 HAL
- The extended flash driver interface supportin a non-uniform
  sector layout. I also hav a flash chip driver for the
  AT49LV1604A that is based on this extended interface, and a
  patch to RedBoot enabling it to use this interface.

I would like to continue making contributions to ecos, but I
really have to say that I am a bit annoyed with the current
practice. I do of course understand that in a transitional
phase like the one we are currently living through things tend
to be more difficult than at other times. But community
contributions are the one vital factor of every open source
project, and the current practice is discouraging.

I strongly support the idea of a test farm. The CVS repository
should remain under tight control, because the quality of the
code base is crucial to the success of ecos. Although I tested
patches I very much dislike the idea of checking them into
the repository without them having been reviewed by others
independently.

tk
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Thomas [mailto:gthomas@ecoscentric.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 9:21 PM
> To: Tim Drury
> Cc: eCos Discussion
> Subject: Re: [ECOS] Who's maintaining CVS
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 13:02, Tim Drury wrote:
> > 
> > I would like to add to this: Will the AT91 HAL patches
> > that Thomas and I wrote make it back into CVS?  Those were
> > submitted a couple months ago and I'd really like to sync
> > my local tree back to the main cvs tree.  I would volunteer
> > to do this, but you really don't want me mucking around
> > with cvs too much.
> 
> Those were fairly significant patches.  Have the contributors
> (you and Thomas?) provided copyright assignments for the work?
> 
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