Re: [ECOS] Re: Is eCos project still alive?

[Brian Austin <brian dot austin at cirrus dot com>]

What does the ecos group wish to accomplish by making releases?

If it causes people to not use it, then I guess I "release" with a more
recent date could help that cause, but other than that, I see nothing
wrong with just pulling the tips _if_ you need new code.

I have not had people ask me for an official release though.  As long as
it does what it's supposed to, they dont seem to mind.


my 2 cents.

Brian


On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 16:33 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2007-12-14, Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 05:38:02AM -0500, Chris Zimman wrote:
> >> Frank,
> >> 
> >> I think you raise a valid point here.  Perhaps it would be time to consider
> >> creating a more up to date release.
> >> Rather frequently on the list, someone will say something to the effect of
> >> 'I've downloaded/am using eCos 2.0 ...blah blah...it seems very out of
> >> date...'  The traditional response has been 'Go pull the latest from CVS'.
> >> 
> >> Thoughts anyone?
> >
> > It has been for a long time the aim to make a release once the
> > copyright transfer to FSF is completed. This has take much
> > much longer than we ever thought it would take. We are nearly
> > there, there is just one copyright assignment left, which is
> > taking a while to sort out.
> >
> > Once this is completed we will start the work needed for a
> > release. This is not something we can do overnight. It
> > involves a lot of work. Nearly ever file needs to be touched
> > in order to change the copyright notices. We probably need new
> > tool chains, want to merge in the v2 flash branch, maybe pick
> > up some patches which got dropped along the way etc. We need
> > to do a lot of testing....
> 
> If there's anything that can be done by soembody with a few
> hours a week to spare, let us know.
> 
> As far as testing goes, my opinion is that a "release" doesn't
> have to be guaranteed 100% bug free.  It would just need to
> mean that there aren't any known incomatibilities beetween
> major packages.  I think what we need more than anything is
> just some snaphosts that can be used as reference points when
> discussing or documenting things.  It's OK if release XYZ has
> some bugs.  The important thing is to be able to say "I'm
> running release XYZ with these patches" and have that mean
> something.
> 
> I know one can accomplish the same thing by using a CVS
> snapshot for a particular date/time, but without common
> reference points in the development history, it's difficult to
> even discuss some things.
> 
> -- 
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> 
> 



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