From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1968 invoked by alias); 21 May 2003 19:01:56 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ecos-maintainers-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-maintainers-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 1958 invoked from network); 21 May 2003 19:01:55 -0000 From: John Dallaway Organization: eCosCentric Limited To: eCos Maintainers Subject: ecos-v2_0-branch [ was Re: [Fwd: RE: Possible deadlock in serial.c] ] Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 19:01:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <1053536609.1558.563.camel@hermes> <3ECBBF6A.5080508@eCosCentric.com> In-Reply-To: <3ECBBF6A.5080508@eCosCentric.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200305212001.44191.jld@ecoscentric.com> X-SW-Source: 2003-05/txt/msg00038.txt.bz2 I think the finite time we can devote to "eCos maintainer" activities is better spent on improving the head (including the processing of contributed patches) than maintaining a release branch which has now fulfilled its purpose. I therefore propose that we consider the ecos-v2_0-branch to be dead. John Dallaway -----Original Message----- From: Jonathan Larmour Date: Wednesday 21 May 2003 19:03 Subject: Re: [Fwd: RE: Possible deadlock in serial.c] > Gary Thomas wrote: > > So, what is the expected policy? I can't see any of us spending > > tremendous resources trying to keep a release branch up-to-date. > > > > Comments? > > The branch is tagged with a release tag, so I have no aversion if people > _want_ to check fixes in.... but my personal opinion is that I can't see > us doing another release based on the 2.0 branch. If we wanted to do one, > I would suggest cutting a new branch off the trunk. But there's nothing > to warrant that for a while yet IMHO. > > BTW, sorry I've been well out of the loop recently. I'm still, er, > preoccupied (as per ). I'll try > and get back into things now. > > Jifl