From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9763 invoked by alias); 15 Jan 2004 21:19:49 -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 9753 invoked from network); 15 Jan 2004 21:19:48 -0000 Message-ID: <3332.208.186.29.82.1074201587.squirrel@www.chez-thomas.org> In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 21:19:00 -0000 Subject: Re: contributing to eCos From: "Gary Thomas" To: "Daly, Jeffrey" Cc: gary@mlbassoc.com, ecos-maintainers@ecos.sourceware.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.2-1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-SW-Source: 2004-01/txt/msg00009.txt.bz2 Daly, Jeffrey said: > hi gary, now that i've made the current CVS version of eCos build redboot for my IXP2800 platform, > i'm wondering how to submit patches to the mailing list? are the patches expected to be created > using 'cvs rdiff' ? (i haven't used CVS for a while) Since you'll be adding files to the repository, the best way is to generate a "normal" diff. Check out the CVS tree into a new directory. Then generate the diffs like this: % diff -uNr Then send the changes, along with a description of what's up, to ecos-patches@ecos.sourceware.org It's probably best to use a MIME attachment, as many mailers mangle the patches beyond usability. Don't forget to make a ChangeLog file for every new package, as well as ChangeLog entries for any files you needed to change within the normal tree. Finally, whatever you want to contribute has to have clear "title". In particular, we'll need you (or Intel) to assign copyright over the material to the FSF (the new steward of eCos). You'll also need to have appropriate copyright boilerplate on all the files. Note: this process and the boilerplate will probably change soon as the use of FSF is still new. I've copied the rest of the maintainers into this, in case there are any other questions or issues that I've missed. Thanks for contributing to eCos. ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | MLB Associates | Consulting for the +1 (970) 229-1963 | Embedded world http://www.mlbassoc.com/ | email: | gpg: http://www.chez-thomas.org/gary/gpg_key.asc ------------------------------------------------------------