From: Brian Austin <brian.austin@cirrus.com>
Cc: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [ECOS] Re: Is eCos project still alive?
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 18:10:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1197650254.23339.36.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fjub85$55l$2@ger.gmane.org>
What does the ecos group wish to accomplish by making releases?
If it causes people to not use it, then I guess I "release" with a more
recent date could help that cause, but other than that, I see nothing
wrong with just pulling the tips _if_ you need new code.
I have not had people ask me for an official release though. As long as
it does what it's supposed to, they dont seem to mind.
my 2 cents.
Brian
On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 16:33 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2007-12-14, Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 05:38:02AM -0500, Chris Zimman wrote:
> >> Frank,
> >>
> >> I think you raise a valid point here. Perhaps it would be time to consider
> >> creating a more up to date release.
> >> Rather frequently on the list, someone will say something to the effect of
> >> 'I've downloaded/am using eCos 2.0 ...blah blah...it seems very out of
> >> date...' The traditional response has been 'Go pull the latest from CVS'.
> >>
> >> Thoughts anyone?
> >
> > It has been for a long time the aim to make a release once the
> > copyright transfer to FSF is completed. This has take much
> > much longer than we ever thought it would take. We are nearly
> > there, there is just one copyright assignment left, which is
> > taking a while to sort out.
> >
> > Once this is completed we will start the work needed for a
> > release. This is not something we can do overnight. It
> > involves a lot of work. Nearly ever file needs to be touched
> > in order to change the copyright notices. We probably need new
> > tool chains, want to merge in the v2 flash branch, maybe pick
> > up some patches which got dropped along the way etc. We need
> > to do a lot of testing....
>
> If there's anything that can be done by soembody with a few
> hours a week to spare, let us know.
>
> As far as testing goes, my opinion is that a "release" doesn't
> have to be guaranteed 100% bug free. It would just need to
> mean that there aren't any known incomatibilities beetween
> major packages. I think what we need more than anything is
> just some snaphosts that can be used as reference points when
> discussing or documenting things. It's OK if release XYZ has
> some bugs. The important thing is to be able to say "I'm
> running release XYZ with these patches" and have that mean
> something.
>
> I know one can accomplish the same thing by using a CVS
> snapshot for a particular date/time, but without common
> reference points in the development history, it's difficult to
> even discuss some things.
>
> --
> Grant Edwards grante Yow! I'm gliding over a
> at NUCLEAR WASTE DUMP near
> visi.com ATLANTA, Georgia!!
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-14 16:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-13 9:46 Loginov Alexander
2007-12-13 9:50 ` Loginov Alexander
2007-12-13 15:15 ` Grant Edwards
2007-12-13 15:43 ` Chris Zimman
2007-12-13 17:40 ` Grant Edwards
2007-12-14 0:48 ` Bob Koninckx
2007-12-14 1:41 ` Grant Edwards
2007-12-14 6:38 ` Frank Pagliughi
2007-12-14 11:15 ` Chris Zimman
2007-12-14 11:20 ` Andrew Lunn
2007-12-14 12:00 ` Paul D. DeRocco
2007-12-14 14:28 ` [ECOS] FSF copyright assignmnett. [Was Re: [ECOS] Re: Is eCos project still alive?] Ilija Koco
2007-12-14 16:21 ` [ECOS] FSF copyright assignment. " Daniel Morris
2007-12-14 17:11 ` [ECOS] Re: Is eCos project still alive? Grant Edwards
2007-12-14 18:10 ` Brian Austin [this message]
2007-12-17 11:29 ` Jonathan Larmour
2007-12-14 16:34 ` Brian Austin
2007-12-14 16:39 ` Sergei Organov
2007-12-14 18:47 ` Grant Edwards
2007-12-13 20:06 ` Mike Arthur
2007-12-14 13:47 ` Ilija Koco
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-12-14 9:07 Loginov Alexander
2007-12-14 8:28 Loginov Alexander
2007-12-14 11:09 ` Chris Zimman
2007-12-13 4:27 [ECOS] " Loginov Alexander
2007-12-13 6:15 ` [ECOS] " Grant Edwards
2007-12-13 3:31 Loginov Alexander
2007-12-13 8:07 ` Grant Edwards
2007-12-13 15:08 ` Brian Austin
2007-12-13 3:02 Anthony Tonizzo
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