Re: [PATCH 0/1] Embedded Maintainer(s), linux-embedded@vger list

[James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com>]

David VomLehn wrote:
> Enrico Weigelt wrote:
>> * Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> schrieb:
>>  
>>> Cross compiling breaks stuff, yes.
>>>
>>> Most packages don't cross compile at all.  Debian has somewhere north 
>>> of 30,000 packages.  Every project that does large scale cross 
>>> compiling (buildroot, gentoo embedded, timesys making fedora cross 
>>> compile, etc) tends to have about 200 packages that cross compile 
>>> more or less easily, another 400 or so that can be made to cross 
>>> compile with _lot_ of effort and a large enough rock, and then the 
>>> project stalls at about that size.
>>>     
>>
>> The problem is: most embedded projects don't make really general-purpose
>> fixes (instead strange things like hacking up autogenerated files), so 
>> they can't feed back to upstream.
>>
>> IMHO, a huge waste of working time.
>>
>>   
> Amen, brother. I'm fortunate in that I work for an organization that is 
> quite good about enforcing code reviews, specifically, the QA 
> organization is empowered to reject changes that do not have code review 
> notes. I also have a fairly broad scope, so I'm in on code reviews for a 
> number of open source components. At each such review, one of my 
> criteria is whether the change is suitable for pushing back to the 
> appropriate community. This is not necessarily a short-term way to make 
> friends, but the long-term effects will be good both for the company and 
> for the open source community in general.
> 
> Now, if we can only get the time to actually push all the backlogged 
> fixes out...

Er, is that GPL or LGPL code that you're modifying? If so, you *have* to 
push those code changes out (make them available to others), whether you 
think people will be interested or not!

> -- 
> David VomLehn, dvomlehn@cisco.com
> The opinions expressed herein are likely mine, but might not be my 
> employer's...

-- 
James Chapman
Katalix Systems Ltd
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