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Branch creation policy?
- From: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- To: newlib at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 00:38:38 -0800
- Subject: Branch creation policy?
Is there any objection to creating newlib branches under the same
policies that have been established for Binutils and GDB?
>From the Binutils MAINTAINERS file:
> Anyone with at least write-after-approval access may create a branch
> to use for their own development purposes. In keeping with FSF
> policies, all patches applied to such a branch must come from people
> with appropriate copyright assignments on file. All legal
> requirements that would apply to any other contribution apply equally
> to contributions on a branch.
>
> Before creating the branch, you should select a name for the branch of
> the form:
>
> binutils-<org>-<name>
>
> where "org" is the initials of your organization, or your own initials
> if you are acting as an individual. For example, for a branch created
> by The GNUDist Company, "tgc" would be an appropriate choice for
> "org". It's up to each organization to select an appropriate choice
> for "name"; some organizations may use more structure than others, so
> "name" may contain additional hyphens.
>
> Suppose that The GNUDist Company was creating a branch to develop a
> port of Binutils to the FullMonty processor. Then, an appropriate
> choice of branch name would be:
>
> binutils-tgc-fm
There is then some technical information below that point.
Thanks,
--
Mark Mitchell
CodeSourcery
mark@codesourcery.com
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