* Samuel Robb <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb: > When you have a one- or two-line fix, and face Yet Another round of > finding the right mailing list, identifying the right maintainers, > figuring out the right way to submit a bug and a patch, and then have to > spend the next 3 weeks explaining how no, you're not interested in being > the PPC maintainer for libfoo... is it any wonder that developers (not > to mention their management) eventually just gives up on the idea of > "giving back to the community?" ACK. > One possible solution would be to provide a clearing house for these > sorts of changes, maybe under the auspices of CELF or a similar > organization. Instead of submitting patches to individual projects, > submit them to the clearing house, and let interested individuals either > gather together and push related patches upstream in individual > projects, or give project maintainers a place to go and find embedded > systems patches related to their projects. See my last mail: that's exactly what the oss-qm project is for: http://oss-qm.metux.de/ With OSS-QM and related tools you often even don't need your own patching infrastructure - oss-qm provides complete patches against virtually any package/release. Perhaps a few words on the infrastructure: * single patches are collected per package, each vendor may get his own namespace/subdir, where he can feed in his patches. * the single patches are automatically pulled together based on "listfiles" - per package+release there is an simple text file which just lists the single patches to be pulled together. * each vendor may get it's own namespace for the listfiles. In other words: if you fear somebody else breaks your already tested/approved packages, just use your own (listfile) namespace. BTW: CSDB does a similar thing for retrieving source tarballs. Just query the DB, never ever care about individual URLs in you local build system. cu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: http://patches.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
