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Re: [PULL REQUEST] Patches for alpha port
- From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at systemhalted dot org>
- To: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
- Cc: libc-ports at sourceware dot org, Aurelien Jarno <aurelien at aurel32 dot net>, Richard Henderson <rth at twiddle dot net>
- Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:26:23 -0400
- Subject: Re: [PULL REQUEST] Patches for alpha port
- References: <20090713221738.GH10110@hall.aurel32.net> <20090716210317.C710B4702D@magilla.sf.frob.com>
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Roland McGrath<roland@redhat.com> wrote:
> It's my feeling that we should not get into the slippery slope of
> merging individual changes for ports that are otherwise abandoned.
> That is, if there is no person responsible (or even responsive! :-)
> for a given port any more, then before you can get a change merged in
> for that port, you have to get a person to be responsible for the port.
> Of course, the obvious approach is to become that person yourself.
I agree with this statement. I certainly don't want patches dumped
into libc-ports.
Cheers,
Carlos.