* [ECOS] eCos 3.0 planning
@ 2008-07-18 10:52 John Dallaway
2008-07-18 11:19 ` Ormund Williams
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From: John Dallaway @ 2008-07-18 10:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ecos-discuss
eCos community
The assignment of copyright in the eCos public sources to the FSF is now
complete and it is time to push forward with our plans for a new release
of eCos. A new release at this time is important for a number of reasons:
a) It allows us to draw a line which marks eCos under FSF copyright
ownership. For this reason alone, we will be bumping the major version
number and make this an "eCos 3.0" release.
b) Although most members of the eCos community work from our CVS
repository, a new release will generate publicity for the project and
send a clear message to technology decision makers.
c) A new release will provide a better experience for users downloading
and installing eCos for the first time.
We plan to incorporate the following new features into the eCos 3.0 release:
* Support for more recent GNU toolchain components
* Flash v2 infrastructure and example drivers (supporting multiple flash
parts on a single hardware platform)
* Support for Microsoft Vista within the eCos host tools
Of course, the new release will also incorporate the numerous
enhancements, bug fixes and platform support packages that have been
contributed since the last release.
As with previous releases, we will aim for verification of eCos
architectural support by testing on a representative set of hardware
platforms to which the maintainers have access. Offers of assistance in
testing on some of the less common architectures would be gratefully
received. Please contact the eCos maintainers at:
ecos-maintainers@ecos.sourceware.org
We will be aiming to release eCos 3.0 towards the end of September 2008
and will therefore branching in August. If you have any local patches
that you would like to see incorporated into the new release, please
submit them for review as soon as possible, allowing time for the
copyright assignment process.
John Dallaway
eCos 3.0 release manager
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* Re: [ECOS] eCos 3.0 planning
2008-07-18 10:52 [ECOS] eCos 3.0 planning John Dallaway
@ 2008-07-18 11:19 ` Ormund Williams
2008-07-18 14:02 ` [ECOS] " Grant Edwards
2008-07-20 11:49 ` [ECOS] " Ilija Kocho
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From: Ormund Williams @ 2008-07-18 11:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ecos-discuss
On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 11:52 +0100, John Dallaway wrote:
> eCos community
>
> The assignment of copyright in the eCos public sources to the FSF is now
> complete and it is time to push forward with our plans for a new release
> of eCos. A new release at this time is important for a number of reasons:
>
Three cheers!!!
... snip ...
> We will be aiming to release eCos 3.0 towards the end of September 2008
> and will therefore branching in August. If you have any local patches
> that you would like to see incorporated into the new release, please
> submit them for review as soon as possible, allowing time for the
> copyright assignment process.
>
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* [ECOS] Re: eCos 3.0 planning
2008-07-18 10:52 [ECOS] eCos 3.0 planning John Dallaway
2008-07-18 11:19 ` Ormund Williams
@ 2008-07-18 14:02 ` Grant Edwards
2008-07-20 11:49 ` [ECOS] " Ilija Kocho
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From: Grant Edwards @ 2008-07-18 14:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ecos-discuss
On 2008-07-18, John Dallaway <jld@ecoscentric.com> wrote:
[regarding a 3.0 release]
Bravo!
While it is true that most experienced users work off of a CVS
snapshot, most beginners seem to start by installing the
"latest release". Then when something doesn't work or isn't
supported, they're told that the "latest release" is hopelessly
obsolete and they should switch to CVS. IMO, wasting new users'
time like that starts them off with a bad taste in their
mouths. A new release will go a long way towards making eCos
seem like a viable project to outsiders.
> * Support for Microsoft Vista within the eCos host tools
Good luck. I'm glad I'm not invovled in that... ;)
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* Re: [ECOS] eCos 3.0 planning
2008-07-18 10:52 [ECOS] eCos 3.0 planning John Dallaway
2008-07-18 11:19 ` Ormund Williams
2008-07-18 14:02 ` [ECOS] " Grant Edwards
@ 2008-07-20 11:49 ` Ilija Kocho
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From: Ilija Kocho @ 2008-07-20 11:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: John Dallaway; +Cc: ecos-discuss
Very good news John.
Btw would suggest to open discussion about feature/wish list. For
instance it would be good to adopt platform natural installation systems
such as deb, rpm, etc.
Best regards
Ilija
John Dallaway wrote:
> eCos community
>
> The assignment of copyright in the eCos public sources to the FSF is
> now complete and it is time to push forward with our plans for a new
> release of eCos. A new release at this time is important for a number
> of reasons:
>
> a) It allows us to draw a line which marks eCos under FSF copyright
> ownership. For this reason alone, we will be bumping the major version
> number and make this an "eCos 3.0" release.
>
> b) Although most members of the eCos community work from our CVS
> repository, a new release will generate publicity for the project and
> send a clear message to technology decision makers.
>
> c) A new release will provide a better experience for users
> downloading and installing eCos for the first time.
>
> We plan to incorporate the following new features into the eCos 3.0
> release:
>
> * Support for more recent GNU toolchain components
> * Flash v2 infrastructure and example drivers (supporting multiple flash
> parts on a single hardware platform)
> * Support for Microsoft Vista within the eCos host tools
>
> Of course, the new release will also incorporate the numerous
> enhancements, bug fixes and platform support packages that have been
> contributed since the last release.
>
> As with previous releases, we will aim for verification of eCos
> architectural support by testing on a representative set of hardware
> platforms to which the maintainers have access. Offers of assistance
> in testing on some of the less common architectures would be
> gratefully received. Please contact the eCos maintainers at:
>
> ecos-maintainers@ecos.sourceware.org
>
> We will be aiming to release eCos 3.0 towards the end of September
> 2008 and will therefore branching in August. If you have any local
> patches that you would like to see incorporated into the new release,
> please submit them for review as soon as possible, allowing time for
> the copyright assignment process.
>
> John Dallaway
> eCos 3.0 release manager
>
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