On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Hans de Goede <hdego...@redhat.com> wrote: > I think that what should be done is contact the debian / ubuntu maintainers, > get any interesting fixes they have which the kl version misses merged, > and then just declare the kl version as being the new official upstream > (with the blessing of the debian / ubuntu guys, and if possible also > with the blessing of the original authors).
It has always been my intention to get the Debian/Ubuntu patches merged (as well as other distros). My thoughts behind renaming were oriented around the notion that that there are more distros out there than just Fedora/Ubuntu/Debian, but that may be something that isn't really a concern. Also, I had no idea whether the distros would actually switch over to the Kernel Labs version as the official upstream source, so providing it under a different name would in theory allow both packages to be available in parallel. >From a practical standpoint, the Ubuntu folks have the original tvtime tarball and all their changes in one patch, which is clearly a bunch of patches that are mashed together probably in their build system. I need to reach out to them to find where they have an actual SCM tree or the individual patches. They've got a bunch of patches which would be good to get into a single tree (autobuild fixes, cross-compilation, locale updates, etc). > This would require kl git to be open to others for pushing, or we > could move the tree to git.linuxtv.org (which I assume may be > easier then for you to make the necessary changes to give > others push rights on kl.org). Kernel Labs has never really had any real interest in "owning" tvtime. I just setup the hg tree in an effort to get all the distro patches in one place and have something that builds against current kernels (and on which I can add improvements/fixes without users having to deal with patches). At the time there was also nobody who clearly had the desire to serve as an official maintainer. In the long term I have no real issue with the LinuxTV group being the official maintainer of record. I've got lots of ideas and things I would like to do to improve tvtime, but in practice I've done a pretty crappy job of maintaining the source (merging patches, etc) at this point. Devin -- Devin J. Heitmueller - Kernel Labs http://www.kernellabs.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
