[ECOS] Who's maintaining CVS

[Iztok Zupet]

On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 17:50, Gary Thomas wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 09:44, Scott Dattalo wrote:
> > On 23 Sep 2002, Gary Thomas wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 08:26, Scott Dattalo wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Is it just Mark S. at Redhat? 
> > > > 
> > > > The reason I ask is because there are several patches getting submitted to
> > > > the ecos-patches mailing list but not all are getting into CVS. (At least
> > > > the tiny one I sent 2 weeks ago didn't). With this kind of volume, I
> > > > personally know that it's difficult to manage (you can commit the change
> > > > easy enough, but testing each and every patch can be *very* time
> > > > consuming).
> > > 
> > > There are a number of us trying to manage the public eCos sources.
> > > AFAIK, Mark is the only one [left] at Red Hat doing so.
> > 
> > And the only one with write access to CVS too, right?
> > 
> 
> No, there are a number of folks with write access to the anonymous CVS
> tree.
> 
> > > As for your patches, we try to look at them and commit as we
> > > can.  Sometimes though, there are issues such as copyright
> > > assignment, etc, which must be dealt with before anything can
> > > be merged into the repository.
> > > 
> > > What patch [exactly] got missed?
> > 
> > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/ecos-patches/2002-09/msg00023.html
> > 
> > This is really a minor patch adding register #defines unique to the at91 
> > processors. Please note that I'm not complaining that the patch is not in 
> > CVS. Instead, I'm just concerned/curious that with only one person with 
> > write access to CVS that patches are going to slip through the cracks.
> > 
> 
> I'll look into this.
> 
> > > Testing?  I don't think that there is a whole lot of testing
> > > which can take place at this time - certainly not to the level
> > > that existed 6 months ago.
> > 
> > I suspected as much. However, with the variety of platforms supported by 
> > eCos, I don't see how it's possible to test everything everytime a new 
> > patch is submitted.
> 
> ... it used to be possible, but times have changed :-(
> 

Guess it would be fine if the other members of the eCos community (not
so small, it seems) participated in testing the patches, the ones having
access to the particular HW platform and of course the knowledge.
 
Regards
iz



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