From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ulf Samuelsson Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:33:10 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] Still no answer for a contribution -- "me too" References: <20080611161156.33737116@crazy><200806130824.42363.buildroot.atmel.com@pollet.net><87a5b0800806130407wddd40a0v53712cddcb76b611@mail.gmail.com> <20080613120529.GB31396@cloud.net.au> Message-ID: <006901c8cd5d$a0aca220$040514ac@atmel.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 12:07:42PM +0100, Will Newton wrote: >> I must confess that has been my experience too. I tried asking Erik >> for commit access but again, no response. Perhaps he is working on >> other projects? > > I think anyone wanting write access should send some patches here > first for review. I guess you already did this -- I don't recall > sorry. > > Personally even though I have commit access I think it is still good > to discuss anything remotely controversial before committing it. Most > changes (new packages, package updates) don't fall in that category of > course. > >> It's a hard balance to strike, I don't think it's right to demand >> anything of people on a volunteer led project but some of us have a >> job to do and a limited amount of time to do it in. > > Does your job require your changes to be committed to the master > repository? > > Personally I am using buildroot in a commercial product for my day > job. I am contributing everything that is relevant back to the > buildroot repository, but we have some changes specific to our > application and some proprietary packages which will never be merged. > We don't expect to be able to build our whole product directly from > the buildroot.uclibc.org repository. I think this is fairly common. That is why I proposed the "local" directory, where the location can be defined as a shell environment variable. BR2_LOCAL or something. By putting your packages here, you should be able to download a new svn and use it without modifications. It was a lot of protests at that time, and it was never fully implemented. The make saveconfig/getconfig uses the local directory. I think that it would be easy to expand to have packages in this directory as well. > > I'm committing my own changes back to the master repository where > relevant, and I commit patches from this mailing list in areas that > are relevant to me and where I think I can properly review them. > Unfortunately I don't have company time to work on parts of buildroot > that fall outside these categories. > > Hamish Best Regards Ulf Samuelsson ulf at atmel.com Atmel Nordic AB Mail: Box 2033, 174 02 Sundbyberg, Sweden Visit: Kavalleriv?gen 24, 174 58 Sundbyberg, Sweden Phone +46 (8) 441 54 22 Fax +46 (8) 441 54 29 GSM +46 (706) 22 44 57 Technical support when I am not available: AT90 AVR Applications Group: mailto:avr at atmel.com AT91 ARM Applications Group: mailto:at91support at atmel.com AVR32 Applications Group mailto:avr32 at atmel.com http://www.avrfreaks.net/; http://avr32linux.org/ http://www.at91.com/ ; http://www.linux4sam.org/