From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 35220 invoked by alias); 13 Oct 2015 12:31:17 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 35197 invoked by uid 89); 13 Oct 2015 12:31:16 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-wi0-f174.google.com Received: from mail-wi0-f174.google.com (HELO mail-wi0-f174.google.com) (209.85.212.174) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-GCM-SHA256 encrypted) ESMTPS; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 12:31:14 +0000 Received: by wicgb1 with SMTP id gb1so186894796wic.1 for ; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 05:31:11 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.194.246.42 with SMTP id xt10mr36498652wjc.11.1444739470196; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 05:31:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from df-desktop.uk.level5networks.com (uk.solarflare.com. [193.34.186.16]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id uq5sm3435765wjc.3.2015.10.13.05.31.09 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 13 Oct 2015 05:31:09 -0700 (PDT) From: David Fernandez To: Jonathan Larmour , Richard Rauch , ecos-discuss@ecos.sourceware.org References: <561C48D9.1010608@jifvik.org> Message-ID: <561CF962.5010808@googlemail.com> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 12:31:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <561C48D9.1010608@jifvik.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [ECOS] Re: is eCos dying? X-SW-Source: 2015-10/txt/msg00009.txt.bz2 (resent, as was sent from company email with likely privacy disclaimer attached) On 13/10/15 00:57, Jonathan Larmour wrote: > On 06/10/15 08:51, Richard Rauch wrote: >> You do not see a lot of activities in the eCos community because of politics >> and commercial interests. > [snip] >> This is just a guess, but in my opinion the reason for this is, that the >> maintainers of public eCos are as well strongly commercial oriented. >> It seems, they will not put any port to official open source repository if >> it could disturb commercial interests (eCosCentric/eCosPro...). > If nothing else, look at the list at the bottom of > http://ecos.sourceware.org/intouch.html and you'll see that only two of the > maintainers (myself and Nick) are in eCosCentric - severely outnumbered! If a > maintainer has the time and ability to go through, review and potentially > rework any submission, then any of them can. If you think there has been some > secret agreement behind-the-scenes between all maintainers to deliberately > stop contributions being committed you are very mistaken. I would say that nobody looks at the list these days, specially ecos-devel. I had some things I managed to put in a state I could submit as valid patches, but nobody answers the emails, so you end up forgetting about it and keeping private patches. Is there any way people can contribute currently, I mean actively contribute, rather than just throw stuff into a black hole? Otherwise, it might be better to just be clear and say that opensource eCos is meant as an evaluation repository, and eCosCentric should be the way to go for any real contributions and in business use of eCos. Regards David Fernandez -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss