From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ulf Samuelsson Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:10:23 +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> Message-ID: <019a01c8cd46$94284110$0d0514ac@atmel.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Will Newton wrote: > On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 8:24 AM, Michel (BusError) > wrote: >> On Wednesday 11 June 2008, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> On March, 12th, I sent a patch adding Thumb support for the ARM >>> architecture to this list: >>> http://buildroot.uclibc.org/lists/buildroot/2008-March/007427.html >> >>> This absence of reaction is very frustrating for new potential >>> contributors. I would like to contribute more to Buildroot, but this >>> experience doesn't really encourage one in spending more time >>> writing patches that will be ignored. >>> >>> Thomas >> >> >> Hi Thomas, >> >> It seems to be the rule more than the exception; I sent a few >> patches months ago and most of them have been ignored completely -- >> even the one as simple as adding a package (libswill, iptraf, >> i2c-tools) >> >> I must admit I gave up pushing anything since. Hope you get better >> luck. > > 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? He is not so active here any longer, so just keep pushing (at a moderate pace). Took me 3-4 months to get write access. > > 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. Exactly. > _______________________________________________ > buildroot mailing list > buildroot at uclibc.org > http://busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/buildroot Best Regards Ulf Samuelsson