From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 86132 invoked by alias); 14 Mar 2016 12:07:48 -0000 Mailing-List: contact binutils-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: binutils-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 86109 invoked by uid 89); 14 Mar 2016 12:07:47 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=breakdown, cortex, HContent-Transfer-Encoding:7Bit, Best X-HELO: foss.arm.com Received: from foss.arm.com (HELO foss.arm.com) (217.140.101.70) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 14 Mar 2016 12:07:45 +0000 Received: from usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (unknown [10.72.51.249]) by usa-sjc-mx-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FECC49; Mon, 14 Mar 2016 05:06:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from e108577-lin.localnet (usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com [10.72.51.249]) by usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A764F3F213; Mon, 14 Mar 2016 05:07:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Thomas Preudhomme To: binutils@sourceware.org, Nicholas Clifton Subject: Re: Procedure to allow creation of a"users/ARM" namespace on binutils-gdb git? Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 12:07:00 -0000 Message-ID: <6543687.FFT9jWKHLW@e108577-lin> User-Agent: KMail/4.13.3 (Linux/3.13.0-79-generic; KDE/4.13.3; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <3476249.Dxu3GuF3Bm@e108577-lin> References: <3476249.Dxu3GuF3Bm@e108577-lin> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-SW-Source: 2016-03/txt/msg00179.txt.bz2 Ping? On Thursday 10 March 2016 10:08:13 Thomas Preudhomme wrote: > Hi, > > TL;DR: What needs doing to OK the creation of a "users/ARM" namespace on > binutils-gdb git? > > The toolchain that ARM maintains at [1] occasionally contains some patches > on top of the stable binutils and gdb branches on which it is based. > Typically, this would be backports to add support for a new ARM > architecture (eg. Cortex- m7 support in our release based on GCC 4.8 and > 4.9). The source for this is currently only available as tarball and we > would like to have publicly available branches for users who which to have > the patch breakdown or prefer to use git clone. These would work in a > similar manner to the ARM/embedded-5- branch in GCC SVN repository. We > believe the most sensible location for hosting these branches is on > sourceware as a sub-namespace of users, in the same way as the "users/hjl" > namespace. People would then clone the binutils branch with git clone -b > ARM/embedded-5-branch > ssh://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git and similar for gdb. > > We are therefore wondering what is the procedure to OK the creation a new > namespace (say users/ARM) on sourceware? > > [1] https://launchpad.net/gcc-arm-embedded > > Best regards, > > Thomas Preud'homme