From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tim Bird Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] CELF open project proposal Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 17:05:36 -0800 Message-ID: <4B15BD60.1070502@am.sony.com> References: <4B15AAFE.4030705@am.sony.com> <8bd0f97a0912011644g169f7309ubf893902698eb810@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <8bd0f97a0912011644g169f7309ubf893902698eb810@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-embedded-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Mike Frysinger Cc: "Bird, Tim" , CE Linux Developers List , linux-embedded Mike Frysinger wrote: > maybe i missed it, but there doesnt seem to be too much emphasis on > working with the respective projects and getting merged. that seems > like one of the most important aspects of doing any enhancement work > as anything not merged means it'll quickly be left behind and largely > go to waste. I agree. Many of our contracts have a financial incentive built in to get "mainlined". Some of our projects' sole objective is to mainline already existing stuff (like Linux-tiny and SquashFS). If anyone has a feature that already exists, but that they think should be merged with the relevant upstream project, that's a good candidate for a proposal. One obvious project, which I'm waiting to see if someone else submits, is to pay someone to mainline some of the outstanding Android patches into the Linux kernel. -- Tim ============================= Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Linux Forum Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Corporation of America =============================