From: Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com>
To: Robert Kiesling <kiesling@earthlink.net>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Rant about ChangeLog entries and commit messages
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:26:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47543C42.5090000@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1IzEUI-0002Kd-4c@owl.gateway.2wire.net>
Robert Kiesling wrote:
> That's because, although the GNU project strictly - and correctly,
> experience has shown - monitors its code base, with the propagation
> of the Free Software development model, newer Free Software
> contributors who maintain their code on sites like sourceforge.net,
> are subject to commercial pressures that the older, ivory-tower
> authors in general are shielded from.
>
> It's impossible to convince someone who wants your "niche" for a
> quickie IPO that maintaining code for more than two or three years
> is worth the investment.
I don't treally understand this commment, we are talking about
improving the maintainability here, and what people are saying
is that some other parts of the project have already moved in
this direction.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-03 17:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-02 10:05 Samuel Tardieu
2007-12-02 10:23 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-12-02 10:52 ` Samuel Tardieu
2007-12-02 12:04 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2007-12-02 23:28 ` Robert Dewar
2007-12-03 0:30 ` DJ Delorie
2007-12-03 4:06 ` Richard Kenner
2007-12-03 4:51 ` Daniel Berlin
2007-12-03 14:41 ` Richard Kenner
2007-12-02 11:43 ` Samuel Tardieu
2007-12-02 12:28 ` Richard Kenner
2007-12-02 12:43 ` Bernd Schmidt
2007-12-02 13:05 ` Eric Botcazou
2007-12-02 14:27 ` Robert Kiesling
2007-12-02 20:52 ` tim
2007-12-03 2:41 ` Robert Kiesling
2007-12-02 23:29 ` Robert Dewar
2007-12-02 20:28 ` Daniel Berlin
2007-12-02 20:36 ` Eric Botcazou
2007-12-02 20:40 ` Daniel Berlin
2007-12-02 22:55 ` Eric Botcazou
2007-12-03 0:21 ` Daniel Berlin
2007-12-03 6:16 ` Eric Botcazou
2007-12-03 13:29 ` Richard Kenner
2007-12-03 15:48 ` Daniel Berlin
2007-12-03 16:20 ` Richard Kenner
2007-12-03 16:50 ` Robert Kiesling
2007-12-03 17:26 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
2007-12-04 22:10 ` Jeffrey Law
2007-12-16 3:03 ` Alexandre Oliva
2007-12-16 10:25 ` NightStrike
2007-12-16 13:04 ` Alexandre Oliva
2007-12-16 18:52 ` NightStrike
2007-12-25 19:35 ` Tim Josling
2007-12-26 1:05 ` Daniel Berlin
2007-12-26 2:17 ` Richard Kenner
2007-12-26 2:31 ` Robert Dewar
2007-12-26 4:53 ` Richard Kenner
2007-12-26 6:00 ` Alexandre Oliva
2007-12-02 20:59 ` tim
2007-12-02 23:32 ` Robert Dewar
2007-12-03 6:02 ` Eric Botcazou
2007-12-03 3:55 ` Richard Kenner
2007-12-02 23:31 ` Joseph S. Myers
2007-12-02 20:23 ` Daniel Berlin
2007-12-03 6:45 ` Nicholas Nethercote
2007-12-03 9:28 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-12-02 10:27 ` Eric Botcazou
2007-12-02 10:43 ` Samuel Tardieu
2007-12-02 10:50 ` Eric Botcazou
2007-12-02 11:14 ` Samuel Tardieu
2007-12-02 11:32 ` Eric Botcazou
2007-12-02 11:48 ` Samuel Tardieu
2007-12-02 12:25 ` Eric Botcazou
2007-12-02 23:03 ` Ben Elliston
2007-12-02 23:54 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-12-03 4:03 ` Richard Kenner
2007-12-03 17:33 ` Diego Novillo
2007-12-03 17:37 ` Richard Kenner
2007-12-03 17:47 ` Bernd Schmidt
2007-12-03 17:58 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2007-12-03 18:20 ` Diego Novillo
2007-12-03 18:51 ` Richard Kenner
2007-12-03 18:58 ` Diego Novillo
2007-12-03 20:08 ` Tim Josling
2007-12-03 18:49 ` Richard Kenner
2007-12-04 16:45 ` Tom Tromey
2007-12-05 23:16 ` Ben Elliston
2007-12-05 23:35 ` Daniel Berlin
2007-12-06 0:29 ` Ben Elliston
2007-12-06 9:53 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-12-06 0:42 ` Robert Dewar
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2007-12-02 18:33 ` Andi Kleen
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2007-12-03 12:20 ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-04 4:03 ` Nicholas Nethercote
2007-12-04 13:05 ` Richard Kenner
2007-12-04 10:19 ` Robert Kiesling
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2007-12-03 16:34 ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-03 16:38 ` Richard Kenner
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