* [ECOS] eCos contributions and development projects
@ 2009-06-05 19:46 Øyvind Harboe
2009-06-05 20:16 ` Sergei Gavrikov
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From: Øyvind Harboe @ 2009-06-05 19:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ecos-discuss, John Dallaway
> Further details at: http://ecos.sourceware.org/contrib.html
Is it just me or does this page "smell" stale?
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* Re: [ECOS] eCos contributions and development projects 2009-06-05 19:46 [ECOS] eCos contributions and development projects Øyvind Harboe @ 2009-06-05 20:16 ` Sergei Gavrikov 2009-06-05 20:38 ` Øyvind Harboe 0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread From: Sergei Gavrikov @ 2009-06-05 20:16 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Øyvind Harboe; +Cc: ecos-discuss, John Dallaway On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 09:45:57PM +0200, Ãyvind Harboe wrote: > > Further details at: Â http://ecos.sourceware.org/contrib.html > > Is it just me or does this page "smell" stale? Stale? lynx -dump -nolist http://ecos.sourceware.org | grep 2009 May 10, 2009 Public Domain Curses port March 30, 2009 eCos 3.0 final release February 22, 2009 eCos 3.0 beta 1 release lynx -dump -nolist http://ecos.sourceware.org/contrib.html | grep 2009 lwIP 3.0 2009-06-05 Simon Kallweit An import of the lwIP 3.0 STM32 USB 2009-06-05 Chris Holgate A USB device driver for the STM32 It seems for me it is a great run. It's pity, but, I found no 2009's on the eCosForge. Sergei -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: [ECOS] eCos contributions and development projects 2009-06-05 20:16 ` Sergei Gavrikov @ 2009-06-05 20:38 ` Øyvind Harboe 2009-06-05 21:56 ` [ECOS] " John Dallaway 2009-06-06 9:21 ` [ECOS] " Sergei Gavrikov 0 siblings, 2 replies; 8+ messages in thread From: Øyvind Harboe @ 2009-06-05 20:38 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Sergei Gavrikov; +Cc: ecos-discuss, John Dallaway On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Sergei Gavrikov<sergei.gavrikov@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 09:45:57PM +0200, Øyvind Harboe wrote: >> > Further details at: http://ecos.sourceware.org/contrib.html >> >> Is it just me or does this page "smell" stale? > > Stale? I'm thinking that it would make sense to have older & new stuff on a separate pages not to dilute the new stuff. > It seems for me it is a great run. It's pity, but, I found no 2009's on > the eCosForge. See the svn repository for 2009 stuff. The web site was never used really. eCosForge provides little but an svn repository. I was thinking that perhaps switching to git thinking on eCos + using a page with listed projects would be neat. That would effectively render eCosForge obsolete. eCos even has a fundamental concept about separate repositories, so git like thinking would be a really neat match. (Actual tool used, svn, git, mercurial, cvs, dracs, etc. doesn't matter as much as pushing the concept of independent repositories.) -- Øyvind Harboe Embedded software and hardware consulting services http://consulting.zylin.com -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
* [ECOS] Re: eCos contributions and development projects 2009-06-05 20:38 ` Øyvind Harboe @ 2009-06-05 21:56 ` John Dallaway 2009-06-06 9:21 ` [ECOS] " Sergei Gavrikov 1 sibling, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread From: John Dallaway @ 2009-06-05 21:56 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Øyvind Harboe; +Cc: ecos-discuss Hi Ãyvind On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 09:45:57PM +0200, Ãyvind Harboe wrote: > >> Further details at: http://ecos.sourceware.org/contrib.html > > Is it just me or does this page "smell" stale? [ snip ] > I'm thinking that it would make sense to have older & new stuff on a > separate pages not to dilute the new stuff. I was thinking exactly the same while I was editing the page earlier today. We should continue to recognise contributions from the past, but the page is now too long. There are also a number of contributions missing from the list. I will look at splitting the content into separate pages. John Dallaway -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: [ECOS] eCos contributions and development projects 2009-06-05 20:38 ` Øyvind Harboe 2009-06-05 21:56 ` [ECOS] " John Dallaway @ 2009-06-06 9:21 ` Sergei Gavrikov 2009-06-06 10:17 ` Andrew Lunn 1 sibling, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread From: Sergei Gavrikov @ 2009-06-06 9:21 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Øyvind Harboe; +Cc: ecos-discuss, John Dallaway On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 10:38:32PM +0200, Ãyvind Harboe wrote: > On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Sergei > Gavrikov<sergei.gavrikov@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 09:45:57PM +0200, Ãyvind Harboe wrote: > >> > Further details at: Â http://ecos.sourceware.org/contrib.html > >> > >> Is it just me or does this page "smell" stale? > > > > Stale? > > I'm thinking that it would make sense to have older & new stuff on a > separate pages not to dilute the new stuff. May be it has a sense, though eCos freshmeat is placed on the top and the very interesting information about other contributions is placed the very deeply the below :-) > > It seems for me it is a great run. It's pity, but, I found no 2009's on > > the eCosForge. > > See the svn repository for 2009 stuff. The web site was never used really. <OT> Especially what the eCos community needs is good eCos wiki. It's pity that community has higly qualificated and talented developers (which usual are the very busy to be the "teachers"), but has not the freelance tech-writes, so, eCos wiki is just a dream for the most newcomers. The main goal of the eCos wiki would be Don't give them (newcomers) a fish, teach them how to fish. Unfortunately, the eCos newcomers get the fish on the list. Why this off-topic? The front page of the eCosForge has pmwiki engine, but, it's pity what it is almost empty. When you did stand up eCosForge, I thought: Great! The wiki is placed on the front page! But... The eCos's "gold" hides itself inside the eCos CVS, and eCosForge's "gold" hides itself in another VCS :-( </OT> So, I very liked the John's initiative of the eCos contributions concept. It points the surfers on the latest eCos's gold. > eCosForge provides little but an svn repository. I was thinking that > perhaps switching to git thinking on eCos + using a page with listed > projects would be neat. That would effectively render eCosForge > obsolete. > > eCos even has a fundamental concept about separate repositories, so > git like thinking would be a really neat match. > > (Actual tool used, svn, git, mercurial, cvs, dracs, etc. doesn't > matter as much as pushing the concept of independent repositories.) As discussed in a past here, any distributed VCS has a lot advantages, especially if an offered service gives the followers wiki (=web). I liked bitbucket service. They offer HG with a support HG's patch queues. BB's wiki is based on the Creole 1.0 mark-down specification and it's Pygments library with the syntax lexers is just really cool thing, there is an example how the CDL snippets can look http://bitbucket.org/tickling/olpce2294b/wiki/Home Regards Sergei -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: [ECOS] eCos contributions and development projects 2009-06-06 9:21 ` [ECOS] " Sergei Gavrikov @ 2009-06-06 10:17 ` Andrew Lunn 2009-06-06 12:34 ` Sergei Gavrikov 0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread From: Andrew Lunn @ 2009-06-06 10:17 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Sergei Gavrikov; +Cc: ecos-discuss > Especially what the eCos community needs is good eCos wiki. It's pity > that community has higly qualificated and talented developers (which > usual are the very busy to be the "teachers"), but has not the freelance > tech-writes, so, eCos wiki is just a dream for the most newcomers. The > main goal of the eCos wiki would be Don't give them (newcomers) a fish, > teach them how to fish. When appropriate, i try to do that. However, it is not easy. We got a lot of newbies to programming who try to use eCos. They don't have the necessary background or experience and are going to struggle/fail. For such people, giving them a fish means they are quiet for a while and so you don't have to deal with them. Then there are the more intelligent newcomers who do have some background, but not in eCos. Such users i'm more likely to give them a bent pin, a long stick, some string and point them towards the river. Often the hard bit is figuring out from minimal information if they have the capability to learn to fish. Andrew -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: [ECOS] eCos contributions and development projects 2009-06-06 10:17 ` Andrew Lunn @ 2009-06-06 12:34 ` Sergei Gavrikov 0 siblings, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread From: Sergei Gavrikov @ 2009-06-06 12:34 UTC (permalink / raw) To: ecos-discuss Andrew Lunn wrote: > > Especially what the eCos community needs is good eCos wiki. It's pity > > that community has higly qualificated and talented developers (which > > usual are the very busy to be the "teachers"), but has not the freelance > > tech-writes, so, eCos wiki is just a dream for the most newcomers. The > > main goal of the eCos wiki would be Don't give them (newcomers) a fish, > > teach them how to fish. > > When appropriate, i try to do that. However, it is not easy. We got a > lot of newbies to programming who try to use eCos. They don't have the > necessary background or experience and are going to struggle/fail. For > such people, giving them a fish means they are quiet for a while and > so you don't have to deal with them. Then there are the more > intelligent newcomers who do have some background, but not in > eCos. Such users i'm more likely to give them a bent pin, a long > stick, some string and point them towards the river. > > Often the hard bit is figuring out from minimal information if they > have the capability to learn to fish. > > Andrew Andrew, well said. Two points. It seemed for me that newcomers would see what eCos is the some specific river (lake?) there (on the wiki pages). And they would decide for themselves before to bomb the list: Am I a fisher? Can I become the eCos fisher? Will I can fish here at all? And the second. There are a lot of a bulrush is growing by the eCos riversides, for example, How to configure this eCos (RedBoot) thing to make a boat move by the river. How to ..., etc., etc., etc. So, it seemed for me that it would be great to find the short explanations, the CDL snippets, the configure tips and tricks on the eCos wiki pages, well, in such a eCos Fisher's Club :-) Sorry, and third. Of course, some fishers don't want to see on the riversides loud fishers. And, perhaps, that's right, well, it is a fishing. But, you know that the most of the newcomers come from M$ world and if they came, why do not teach them new paradigm via wiki pages? Should he/she wastes a time to manage any issue during days trying to manage minicom, GDB, make fs image, etc. and bomb the list? Why do not read about on the wiki pages? What is eCos project then? Is it a quite lake or is it a live river? So, they come to the riverside, get the fish from you and they do not know what to do with the given fish then, then they won't be back. I do not know now, perhaps, it should be so. Sergei -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
* [ECOS] eCos contributions and development projects @ 2009-06-05 19:10 John Dallaway 0 siblings, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread From: John Dallaway @ 2009-06-05 19:10 UTC (permalink / raw) To: eCos Discussion eCos community Following recent discussion concerning the NAND Flash infrastructure contributions, the eCos maintainers are introducing a simple process by which open development projects may be registered with us at an early stage and listed on the eCos website. In future, contributions arising from registered projects will be considered for acceptance into the eCos repository with priority over broadly equivalent contributions developed in private. This policy is intended to encourage collaboration on new features and reduce the possibility of a community development being rejected in favour of a private development of similar scope and quality. If you are involved in an eCos-related development which you are intending to contribute, please do consider registering your project with us. Further details at: http://ecos.sourceware.org/contrib.html For avoidance of doubt: a) Contributions from projects which are unable to register for commercial or contractual reasons are still very welcome. b) All contributions remain subject to technical review by the eCos maintainers prior to acceptance into the eCos repository. John Dallaway On behalf of the eCos maintainers -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
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