On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Mike (mwester) <[email protected]> wrote:

> I encourage Michael to please make it a priority to put up a GIT repo on
> one of the many community git sites, and share his sources with us.  And
> if not, I'd like to understand why that can't be done.

It doesn't have to go as far as that.  I spent a number of hours out
of my personal time to develop something that people can use to submit
patches with very little effort.

I need to clean up the tool and put it in a web page where people can
download it and use it.  It takes 20 seconds to run, afterwards you
have to take a single file and mail it.  I didn't automate the mailing
part because on one hand I'm a privacy nut and the other hand it's not
necessarily true that users configure their computers to be able to
send mail without resorting to specific programs (Thunderbird,
Evolution, whatever).

The point is, I understand it's very expensive to host a git
repository the size of this one (it's almost 2 GB right now).  There's
no "secret" git repo in Koolu, everything is built out of the publicly
available sources, that's what has enabled people like Michael to
build their own images and submit patches and it's very important that
that keeps happening.  But at the same time it's very important that
people play fair and publish source BEFORE publishing binaries.

I for one haven't traveled all the way to today in order to start
accepting sourceless binaries like 20 years ago.  You guys do whatever
you think it's right, but I would, at the least, worry.

Marcelo
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