From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8531 invoked by alias); 14 Dec 2007 12:00:13 -0000 Received: (qmail 8521 invoked by uid 22791); 14 Dec 2007 12:00:13 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.neotel.com.mk (HELO neomail.neotel.com.mk) (80.77.144.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:00:07 +0000 Received: from [88.85.100.156] (account ilijak@siva.com.mk HELO [192.168.209.21]) by neomail.neotel.com.mk (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.6) with ESMTPA id 2202671 for ecos-discuss@ecos.sourceware.org; Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:00:04 +0100 Message-ID: <47627042.8090105@siva.com.mk> Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:28:00 -0000 From: Ilija Koco User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071022) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: eCos Discussion References: <1197567366.3593.17.camel@lucretius.esaturnus.com> <476190B4.2050606@mindspring.com> <20071214104551.GD13033@lunn.ch> In-Reply-To: <20071214104551.GD13033@lunn.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact ecos-discuss-help@ecos.sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-discuss-owner@ecos.sourceware.org Subject: [ECOS] FSF copyright assignmnett. [Was Re: [ECOS] Re: Is eCos project still alive?] X-SW-Source: 2007-12/txt/msg00085.txt.bz2 Andrew Lunn 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.... > > Andrew > And yet there isn't any note of this event. I am apologize for changing the subject, but I don't recall of any announcement on mailing list and surely there isn't any news at ecos.sourceware.org. I got an official (snail mail) letter from eCosCentric about my assignment being transfered to FSF and that's all. Best regards Ilija -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss