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Re: Publishing a Platform HAL
- From: Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc dot com>
- To: Rene Nielsen <rbn at vitesse dot com>
- Cc: eCos Discussion <ecos-discuss at ecos dot sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:00:44 -0700
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Publishing a Platform HAL
- References: <376637F07F8A9242AD11921B15FA17DC8545A4@mx-dk.vsc.vitesse.com> <376637F07F8A9242AD11921B15FA17DC8AEF67@mx-dk.vsc.vitesse.com>
Rene Nielsen wrote:
Hi folks,
I have a question on the process of publishing a Platform HAL.
Over the past years, we've developed a new Platform HAL, vcoreii, which is based on the ARM9 Variant HAL.
It has required new packages and a multitude of changes to existing packages, which we'd also like to post patches for.
How do we handle this?
Is this the correct flow:
1) Start discussing each unrelated change-request in separate threads on ecos-discuss, then
2) when everyone agrees, send patches to ecos-patches, then
3) when this change is committed, go to 1) with the next change that depends on this one.
4) When no more changes are required by the Platform HAL, post the Platform HAL itself.
I foresee this approach to take an eon and a lot of activity on the mailing lists, but is there any other way?
I don't think that the process will be as arduous as you do :-)
Start by posting your patches to ecos-patches (that's the place for this
discussion, not this list). One or more of the maintainers will review
them and provide feedback (others can as well, of course) Once the dust
settles, the changes can be merged into the public tree.
A couple of things to note:
* No changes are being accepted at the moment as we are doing some
pretty massive changes to complete the FSF changeover and release
eCos 3.0
* Send your patches, in "diff -u" format. If there are pieces which
can be logically separated, send them separately. Little patches
will get reviewed quicker than one big hunk.
P.S. I have a Copyright Assignment in place.
With the FSF, I hope!
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