COMMUNITY Having just spend the last 3.5 months trying to construct a merger of Waldek's version, Gaby's version, my work, and the Gold version I find this whole process very tedious. The SVN versions have diverged wildly in structure from the Arch/CVS versions and the time has come to restructure the way we work.
Its fine to have your own branch and its fine to experiment with new ideas. But we don't seem to be acting as a "community". The primary evidence is the frequent reference to "Waldek's Version" or "Gaby's Version" or the "Gold Version", as if in competition. This isn't the way that "community-based" projects work. I don't ever recall anyone suggesting "Bob's GCC" or "Jane's Mozilla" or "Bill's Apache". If you want a change to GCC you need to work as part of a community and get the change accepted into the savannah sources. There are "versions" in Linux. You can get a copy of Andrew Morton's version of the kernel. You can build your own kernel. You can get specialized kernels for special machines. But, in general, when referring to "the kernel" you are referring to the one maintained by linus at kernel.org. Linus is not going to reach out to your special version and try to merge it. The Axiom Gold version lives in Arch on axiom-developer.org and is also publicly mirrored into CVS at sourceforge and CVS at savannah. Following the linux model some portion of your time needs to be spent "packaging" your changes so they can fit into Axiom. Without this effort you are fragmenting the very small community we have. The process for "packaging" changes has been well documented for a number of years. This involves collecting up a group of changes, such as the elimination of prototypes, into a changeset that can be applied against Gold. These are published as a set of diff -Naur changes. So far I have seen no changesets against Gold, no "packaging" effort, no community-directed effort. Please give some thought to community-directed effort. Tim _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
